While a pulse oximeter may not be the first item on your Cyber Monday shopping list, it’s an essential item to keep in your home these days. The device measures blood oxygen levels, heart rate, and ...
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 ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, people started thinking about pulse oximeters. Suddenly, devices most people previously couldn’t name were selling out left and right. A pulse oximeter is a ...
The Medical Devices Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently met to review the reported inaccuracy of pulse oximetry in patients with darker skin. The meeting ...
At-home health monitoring is becoming more and more accessible. With tools like personal pulse oximeters, health-conscious individuals can feel in charge of their own physical health and doctors can ...
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 ...
Covid-19 made pulse oximeters an even more important tool for measuring the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream than they had been before. Widely used in hospitals and health systems, these small ...
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