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 ...

Expanding the long-running partnership will bring Medtronic technologies, such as the Nellcor pulse oximetry product, to more ...

Pulse oximetry is a means for non-invasive monitoring of oxygen saturation in blood. It employs an indirect method of assessing these conditions immediately just by clipping a sensor onto your finger ...

Pulse oximetry has been recognized as a promising screening tool for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). The aim of this research was to study the feasibility of implementation in a community ...

Pulse oximetry is a tool that provides clinical guidance. When physicians are aware of the limitations of their tools, they modify their behavior – witness the many instances where a more accurate and ...

The UCSF Hypoxia Laboratory and UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA) are formally launching the Open Oximetry Project, a multi-year initiative to improve access to safe ...

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 ...

Acknowledging the disparity in pulse oximetry implicates a $2 billion industry that has faced stricter regulations in recent years in an attempt to address bias in the development and testing of these ...

A woman's life-saving treatment was critically delayed when her long, thick press-on nails obstructed a pulse oximeter during a heart attack. Medical staff had to call a manicurist to remove them.

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 ...

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Kimani Toussant’s wife, an epidemiologist, brought him an article about how pulse oximeters appeared to be less accurate in people with darker skin. The small ...