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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Problems with pulse oximeters have been known for decades, but it wasn’t until the pandemic that the real dangers to Black ...
The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure. She has ...
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