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FDA panel to examine evidence that pulse oximeters may not work as well on dark skin

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 small ...
CNN

FDA panel recommends more diversity in pulse oximeter trials

The longstanding problem of pulse oximeters providing less-accurate readings for people with dark skin tones got another look Friday from a panel of experts for the US Food and Drug Administration.
STAT

Pulse oximeters’ inaccuracies in darker-skinned people require urgent action, AGs tell FDA

More than two dozen attorneys general are urging Food and Drug Administration officials to take urgent action to address disparities in how well pulse oximeters, the fingertip devices used to monitor ...
Reason

Are Pulse Oximeters "Intrinsically Biased Against People of Color?"

I am a huge advocate of using pulse oximeters, which measure blood oxygen saturation levels, to help monitor how Covid is affecting one's lungs. A pulse oximeter may have even saved my life; when I ...