Across the healthcare landscape, more and more conversations are focusing on health inequity. Specific to pulse oximetry, recent research, media, and regulatory discussions have been raising ...

Another week, another disparity of care. In this case, it's attributable to a measure known to be flawed: pulse oximetry. Does the flaw lie solely in the tool – or how it is used? Let’s take a deeper ...

Twenty-five AGs called on the FDA to take urgent action on pulse oximeters' inaccuracies when used on people with darker skin.

In this study, pulse oximetry was highly specific (99.9%) and moderately sensitive (76.5%) for the detection of CCHD, meeting standard thresholds for universal screening.

A portable device used to detect blood oxygen levels revolutionized the medical field 50 years ago and is now receiving essential updates Efforts to improve the accuracy of pulse oximetry readings ...

Beginning on October 1, 2014 all Utah babies are required to receive screening for CCHD using pulse oximetry. Many hospitals have already begun screening.

New research has found that pulse oximetry readings — a tool used to measure blood oxygen saturation levels and guide treatment options for COVID-19 — have been less accurate in Black, Asian ...

Overestimation of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry led to delayed delivery of COVID-19 therapy, and an unrecognized need for therapy among Black patients, according to a retrospective cohort ...

Attorneys general representing half of the U.S. are calling on the FDA to step up its ongoing efforts to eliminate racial biases from pulse oximetry.