Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH 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, according to the most comprehensive study ever to explore the issue. Published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, the new study is...
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Pulse oximeter readings for different ethnic groups unreliable in assessing severity of COVID-19 pneumonia
by University of Nottingham Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The severity of COVID-19 pneumonia can be difficult to assess in people from different ethnic groups, due to inaccurate readings from a device that measures the level of oxygen in the blood of patients. The findings of the research, published in the European Respiratory Journal, show that pulse...
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More health inequality: Black people are 3 times more likely to experience pulse oximeter errors
Authors Thomas Valley, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Michael Sjoding, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School Susan Dorr Goold, Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan Medical School Disclosure statement Thomas Valley receives funding from the National...
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FDA Clears Masimo’s Go Anywhere Pulse Oximeter and Respiration Rate Monitor
Masimo won FDA clearance for its Rad-G pulse oximeter, a rugged device developed with the help of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Originally created to spot-check patients for SpO2 (oxygen saturation), respiration rate from the plethysmograph (RRp), pulse rate (PR), perfusion index (Pi), and pleth variability index (PVi®), this latest generation of the Rad-G...