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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 ...

Covid-19 made pulse oximeters an even more important tool for measuring the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream than they had been before. Widely used in hospitals and health systems, these small ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashraf Fawzy remembers one patient, a Black woman with asthma, who arrived in the intensive care unit of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Despite her pulse oximeter ...

The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema. The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well above the 88% blood oxygen saturation level that signals an urgent risk of ...

Efforts to fix bias and accuracy problems with pulse oximeters have an uncertain future under the Trump administration. After years of concerns that pulse oximeters may provide less accurate results ...

Blood oxygen levels refer to the amount of oxygen circulating in the blood. Normal blood oxygen levels fall between 75 and 100 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) on arterial blood gas (ABG) test results.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom reinforced a growing body of knowledge that not all blood oxygenation measurement devices, particularly pulse ...

A Food and Drug Administration panel discussed Tuesday several studies that found pulse oximeters may give less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones. The studies found the devices, ...