The company opened a clinical physiology lab near the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, to conduct its clinical ...

A new study published in BMJ using data from over 100 hospitals in the United States Veterans Health Administration found significantly more instances of missed low blood oxygen levels in Black ...

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 ...

ICU patients with darker skin who received less accurate pulse oximeter readings also received less supplemental oxygen, a new study found.

The researchers found that 24.7% of Black patients had pulse oximeter readings that were at least 5 percentage points higher than the oxygen levels in their blood gas results.

A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level of another after administering a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Gauhati, India, Jan. 21, 2021. WASHINGTON — Makers ...

Pulse oximeters used to test blood oxygen levels, an increasingly common precaution during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be giving a false sense of security according to an FDA warning.

Pulse oximeters, used to fight COVID-19, may be inaccurate on people of color: FDA Black patients are more likely to have undetected low blood oxygen levels.

For a person with dark skin, the oximeter could indicate that oxygen levels are normal, when, in reality, a blood sample might show low oxygen levels.