Pulse oximeters designed for home use have been available for some time. But in recent years, their popularity has grown as people increasingly prioritize wellness and actively seek convenient ...

Pulse oximeter for infants. In the U.S., all newborns are given a pulse ox by law. This is to screen for heart defects. About 1% of all babies are born with heart defects, ...

One study on flawed pulse oximeter readings, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine in July, found that among more than 3,000 hospitalized patients receiving intensive care, Asian, Black ...

Another vital part of the kit is a pulse oximeter, which [Aris] uses to make sure he’s getting enough oxygen. His O 2 saturation actually goes up from his baseline when the hood is on and ...

The primary function of a pulse oximeter is to gather health data and notify you of any unusual readings. A normal blood oxygen saturation rate is around 95% with slight variations.

WASHINGTON — With the widespread use of oxygen saturation in medical practice, a pulse oximeter that works on all skin pigments is crucial, according to an American Thoracic Society ...

P atients with darker skin who received less accurate readings of their oxygen levels using pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices clamped on hospitalized patients’ fingers — also received ...

Anil Oza is STAT’s 2024-2025 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow. You can reach Anil on Signal at aniloza.16. In 2022, Noha Aboelata noticed something troubling. The founding CEO of a health ...

A pulse oximeter is worn by Brown University professor Kimani Toussaint. The devices have been shown in research to produce inaccurate results in dark-skinned people, and Toussaint's lab is ...

Black people in the hospital are 31.9% more likely than White patients to have pulse oximeter readings that overestimate their oxygen levels by at least 4 percentage points, according to data ...

She is a co-author of a study published in 2024 that found unreliable pulse oximeter readings might limit the way Black patients with heart failure qualify for those potentially lifesaving procedures.

Pulse oximeters are affected by several factors, including melanin, light scattering, and tissue morphology. It’s a well known problem that oximeter accuracy is systematically incorrect with ...