Yahoo

The problem with pulse oximeters your doctor probably doesn’t know.

The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure. She has ...
MedPage Today

Pulse Oximeters Once Again in the Spotlight at FDA

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WRAL

FDA panel examines 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 ...
IFLScience

Decades-Old Problem Of Pulse Oximetry Across Skin Tones Targeted By New Draft FDA Guidance

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Healthcare IT News

Medtronic dismissed from pulse oximeter lawsuit, FDA still working on guidance

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 – ...
STAT

Fixing pulse oximeters requires federal might and possible legal action, researchers say

Lizzy Lawrence leads STAT’s coverage of the Food and Drug Administration. She was previously a medical devices reporter. You can reach Lizzy on Signal at lizzylaw.53. Anil Oza is a general assignment ...
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 ...
The Hill

FDA convenes meeting on ‘mounting real-world evidence’ pulse oximeters are less accurate for people with darker skin

FDA panel meets to discuss pulse oximeters, which are medical devices that measure blood oxygen levels. Studies have suggested that oximeter readings are less accurate for people who have darker skin ...
MM&M

FDA’s promised rules on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias

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 ...
MedPage Today

FDA's Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely to End Decades of Racial Bias

OAKLAND, Calif. -- 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 ...