The common medical devices don’t work as well for Black patients. The FDA is now trying to do something about it.

Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now the US Food and Drug Administration is proposing guidance to help make these ...

At a CVS store in a racially diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn Center, the only devices available to shoppers to measure their ...

The pulse oximeter LED display faces the user for an easy read. ACCOMODATES WIDE RANGE OF FINGER SIZES - Finger chamber with SMART Spring System. Works for ages 12 and above. LOADED WITH ...

Pulse oximeters help doctors evaluate a person's pulse rate and the oxygen saturation of your blood. The FDA is proposing ...

The agency is proposing that device manufacturers improve their testing to including larger, more diverse sample sizes.

A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level of another ... By snapping a device onto a finger and then sending two wavelengths of light into the skin, the oximeter ...

Individuals with darker skin tones may have difficulty using certain medical equipment according to recent studies.

Pulse oximeters gauge the proportion of oxygen-carrying red blood cells in a patient’s bloodstream by shining light of two wavelengths through the patient’s finger and comparing the differential ...

Manufacturers increasingly but still infrequently follow Food and Drug Administration guidance that recommends testing pulse oximeters on participants with a range of skin pigmentations, according to ...

How he survived. Pulse oximeters helped drive racial inequities in care during the pandemic, but many devices at drugstores and online won’t be subject to the guidelines.

Pulse oximeters are small finger-clamp devices that estimate how much oxygen is being carried in the blood. Available both over the counter and by prescription, they grew in popularity during the ...