Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Real-world study looked at relationship between skin pigmentation and pulse oximeter bias in critically ill ...

Researchers found pulse oximeters went from overestimating blood oxygen levels to underestimating them; inaccuracies were ...

OBJECTIVES: Pulse oximetry is widely used in the NICU, but clinicians often distrust the displayed values during patient motion, i.e., questionable oxygen saturation (SpO 2) and pulse rate (PR) values ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recently found that a device used to measure oxygen levels might be overestimating those levels in children of different races, which could ...

Pulse oximetry equipment is largely calibrated using adult patients. This study represents a comprehensive attempt to gain information on the accuracy of pulse oximetry devices in infants and children ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pulse oximeters are more effective in white patients than in Black patients. Those in health care need to ...

To determine if a change in the pulse oximeter goal range and high alarm limit for oxygen saturation (SpO 2) alters the distribution of SpO 2 for premature infants in oxygen. This study was nested ...

As a triple threat of respiratory illnesses – flu, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV – sweeps the United States, emergency departments are using one small tool more than usual to ...

The longstanding problem of pulse oximeters providing less-accurate readings for people with dark skin tones got another look Friday from a panel of experts for the US Food and Drug Administration.

Takuo Aoyagi, an inventor of the pulse oximeter, an ingenious and indispensable medical device that measures oxygen in the blood and has become a staple of hospitals around the world, emerging in ...