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 ...

Pulse oximeters -- one of the most common medical devices used in global healthcare -- can provide significantly overestimated oxygen saturation readings in people with darker skin tones ...

Pulse oximeter and blood gas analysis readings were taken simultaneously, and most study participants had at least two such readings, for a total of 1,760 paired measurements among the 631 study ...

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 ...