A person holds their finger in a pulse oximeter as it takes a reading for their pulse and oxygen levels (Photo by Huw Fairclough/Getty Images) As the NHS is stretched to breaking point by the ...

10:06, Mon, Jan 25, 2021 Updated: 20:33, Mon, Jan 25, 2021 The new mutated strain of coronavirus is tearing through British society and pushing hospital staff to the brink. You're not merely at the ...

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 ...

Scientists have long known that pulse oximeters are less accurate when used for people with dark skin tones – and now, a new report offers some insight into just how much more inaccurate these ...

In this 2025 wellness update, BloodVitals details how the BloodVitals Pulse Oximeter is aligned with rising public interest in real-time, pain-free blood oxygen level monitoring at home. As more ...

SOME coronavirus patients are being sent home from hospital with an oximeter, as medical systems in the US struggle to reserve resources for only the sickest people. So what is this gadget, and is it ...

Pulse oximeters are becoming increasingly popular for home use, as people buy them to monitor if someone in the family becomes seriously ill with Covid-19. The devices, which measure the percentage of ...

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.

FILE - A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level of another after administering COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Gauhati, India, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, ...

Is The Pulse Oximeter Biased? Research Finds It Can Overestimate Oxygen Readings For Darker Skin Tones According to a research, if the pulse oximeter devices are not 'calibrated' for dark skin tones, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their products work for patients of color, under a new federal ...