Reports of race, ethnicity, or skin tone occurred 320 times in 12.5% of 767 FDA summary documents that discussed pulse oximeter performance testing from 1996 to 2024, reported Kadija Ferryman, PhD, of ...
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Pulse oximeter performance varies by skin pigment
The differences, or bias, between estimates of blood oxygen saturation levels as measured with pulse oximeters compared to the gold-standard method of measuring oxygen saturation in arterial blood ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion programs threaten to derail efforts to fix racial disparities associated with pulse oximeters — just as the federal government was ...
The differences, or bias, between estimates of blood oxygen saturation levels as measured with pulse oximeters compared to the gold-standard method of measuring oxygen saturation in arterial blood ...
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