Improving the accuracy of pulse oximeters, especially in patients with darker skin pigments, will be the focus at Friday's meeting of the FDA's Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel, ...

In the EXAKT study from the U.K., the home-use pulse oximeters assessed all gave higher oxygen saturation (SpO2) readings for patients with darker skin tones than for patients with lighter skin tones.

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 ...

The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Two years ago, ...

Over-the-counter pulse oximeters, available online for as little as $14.99, use similar technology but are largely unregulated. So, too, are Apple Watches and other fitness gizmos that often include ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pulse oximeter inaccuracy due to darker skin tones was found in 30 out of 44 studies. Some studies showed a ...

On November 1, 2023, a contingent of 25 US state attorneys general wrote to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to encourage the agency “to act with urgency to address the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pulse oximeter readings are often less accurate in Black patients compared with white patients. Inaccurate pulse ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Rather than provide clarity on how to reduce racial bias in pulse ...

In a suit filed against CVS, Walgreens, GE Healthcare and many other medical technology companies and sellers of pulse oximeters – devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – ...