The pulse oximeter is currently one of the most essential medical devices. This health instrument can actually help you during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this photo illustration, a young woman ...

"Although absolute differences in readings were small, they can result in substantially higher rates of false negatives and ...

Pulse oximeters became a hot ticket item after the COVID-19 pandemic first began. Suddenly, devices most people previously couldn’t name were selling out left and right. A pulse oximeter is a small ...

This large prospective UK study compared five low-cost fingertip pulse oximeters with arterial blood gas measurements and ...

Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxemia) give ...

A long-awaited study commissioned by the FDA has muddied the path forward on how to reduce racial bias in pulse oximeter ...

Pulse oximeters use light to measure how much oxygen is in a person’s blood. For most people, a normal pulse oximeter reading is between 95% and 100%, researchers said in background notes. Readings ...

New research sheds light on the widespread discrepancies of pulse oximeter accuracy among patients of color. The devices are used in both veterans and commercial hospitals. Authors caution increased ...

In the fight against Covid-19, the pulse oximeter has been an essential tool for doctors and other medical professionals. But the small device that monitors oxygen levels may not work well for people ...

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 ...

A new study shows just how lifesaving home monitoring of oxygen levels can be. Credit...Aileen Son for The New York Times Supported by By Tara Parker-Pope When my daughter returned to school this fall ...

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 ...