Healthcare professionals have developed several methods for monitoring people's overall health and wellbeing during a regular checkup. Many of these measure substance concentrations or saturations in ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO Key Takeaways If your oxygen saturation level drops below 92%, seek medical help right away. A dangerously low oxygen level can make you feel short of breath ...

In critical care, meticulous monitoring of oxygen saturation and haemodynamic parameters is vital to guiding therapeutic interventions and improving patient outcomes. Traditional metrics, such as ...

Blood platelet aggregation with epinephrine (a) and low-frequency ultrasound (b) in vitro. In (b), two samples are sonicated with ultrasound at 60 W electric power (pink, red) and two samples are ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

When physically demanding activities are performed at high altitude or in other low-oxygen environments, excellent coordination, judgment, and decision-making are important. In some cases, such as ...

A new study has found that vaping e-cigarettes slows the speed of blood flow in users' blood vessels and lowers their blood oxygen saturation. Blood oxygen saturation is a measure of the amount of ...

The team said that most of the studies (30 out of 44) analysed revealed evidence of these medical devices being inclined to overestimate oxygen saturation in blood in participants with darker skin ...

The Nasal Alar SpO 2 sensor (Xhale Assurance) is a disposable, single patient use pulse oximetry sensor that clips onto the nasal ala, the fleshy part of the side of the nose. The sensor is indicated ...

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 ...

Research conducted by a team of scientists from Kaunas universities, Lithuania, revealed that low-frequency ultrasound influences blood parameters. The findings suggest that ultrasound’s effect on ...