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How To Use Pulse Oximeter To Check COVD-19 Infection? Reading Results, Function, and Other Details

The pulse oximeter is currently one of the most essential medical devices. This health instrument can actually help you during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this photo illustration, a young woman ...
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Pulse Oximeter Failings for Darker-Skinned People Might Not Have a Simple Solution

"Although absolute differences in readings were small, they can result in substantially higher rates of false negatives and ...
News-Medical.Net on MSN

Pulse oximeters miss hypoxemia more often in people with darker skin, study finds

This large prospective UK study compared five low-cost fingertip pulse oximeters with arterial blood gas measurements and ...
Yahoo

Pulse oximeters are flying off shelves—here's what you need to know

Pulse oximeters became a hot ticket item after the COVID-19 pandemic first began. Suddenly, devices most people previously couldn’t name were selling out left and right. A pulse oximeter is a small ...
The Conversation

What’s a pulse oximeter? Should I buy one to monitor COVID at home?

Stuart Marshall is a councillor (non-executive director) for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) David A. Story is a councillor (non-executive director) for the Australian ...
STAT

FDA-funded study of pulse oximeter accuracy yields surprising and confusing results

A long-awaited study commissioned by the FDA has muddied the path forward on how to reduce racial bias in pulse oximeter ...
Yahoo

Pulse oximeters found to be less accurate for Black vs. white patients

New research sheds light on the widespread discrepancies of pulse oximeter accuracy among patients of color. The devices are used in both veterans and commercial hospitals. Authors caution increased ...
The New York Times

Do I Still Need a Pulse Oximeter?

A new study shows just how lifesaving home monitoring of oxygen levels can be. Credit...Aileen Son for The New York Times Supported by By Tara Parker-Pope When my daughter returned to school this fall ...
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FDA panel to examine evidence that pulse oximeters may not work as well on dark skin

As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Owais Durrani sees this issue regularly first-hand: When he clamps a pulse oximeter onto a patient's fingertip to measure their blood oxygen levels, the small ...
CNN

This device is crucial in the fight against Covid. It may not work on dark skin

In the fight against Covid-19, the pulse oximeter has been an essential tool for doctors and other medical professionals. But the small device that monitors oxygen levels may not work well for people ...

Fingertip Blood Oxygen Monitors Are Less Accurate For People Of Color, Study Finds

Pulse oximeters use light to measure how much oxygen is in a person’s blood. For most people, a normal pulse oximeter reading is between 95% and 100%, researchers said in background notes. Readings ...
Reason

Are Pulse Oximeters "Intrinsically Biased Against People of Color?"

I am a huge advocate of using pulse oximeters, which measure blood oxygen saturation levels, to help monitor how Covid is affecting one's lungs. A pulse oximeter may have even saved my life; when I ...