STAT

FDA-funded study of pulse oximeter accuracy yields surprising and confusing results

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

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

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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 ...
MedPage Today

Pulse Oximeters Once Again in the Spotlight at FDA

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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
The Hill

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

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a meeting on Tuesday to examine and discuss what an agency panel called “mounting real-world evidence” suggesting that pulse oximeter devices do not provide ...
FierceBiotech

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 ...