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Pulse oximeters miss hypoxemia more often in people with darker skin, study finds
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A major UK study shows that commonly used home pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin, increasing the risk of undetected hypoxemia and raising ...
On November 1, 2023, a contingent of 25 US state attorneys general wrote to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to encourage the agency “to act with urgency to address the ...
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Pulse oximeter failings for darker-skinned people might not have a simple solution
Two studies suggest both under- and over-estimation of blood oxygen levels ...
In a suit filed against CVS, Walgreens, GE Healthcare and many other medical technology companies and sellers of pulse oximeters – devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – ...
Acknowledging the disparity in pulse oximetry implicates a $2 billion industry that has faced stricter regulations in recent years in an attempt to address bias in the development and testing of these ...
The companies plan to co-develop solutions that support the integration of Raydiant Oximetry’s fetal pulse oximetry technology into GE HealthCare’s fetal monitoring and digital perinatal surveillance ...
Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading congenital cause of death in newborns worldwide. Approximately ...
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