Pulse oximetry was less accurate for people with darker skin tones in two studies, one regarding home-use devices and the ...

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

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 ...

Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxemia) give ...

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 ...

Pulse oximeters used to detect hypoxaemia give higher readings for patients with darker than lighter skin tones, according to ...

Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxaemia) give ...

Covid-19 made pulse oximeters an even more important tool for measuring the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream than they had been before. Widely used in hospitals and health systems, these small ...

The physics behind the technology in blood-oxygen gauges known as pulse oximeters may impede its ability to get accurate readings on people with darker skin, according to the U.S. Food and Drug ...

One of the first studies exploring the relationship between skin tone and oximeter accuracy was published in 2005 by Anesthesiology. The study concluded that of the three pulse oximeters tested on a ...

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 ...