Walmart's Vibeat Pulse Oximeter, Bluetooth Finger Oxgyen ... Customers love that it uploads data to an app for storage. One customer writes on Walmart.com, "Might have saved my life ...

Black people in the hospital are 31.9% more likely than White patients to have pulse oximeter readings that overestimate their oxygen levels by at least 4 percentage points, according to data ...

That finding was based on data from the Veterans Health Administration in which pulse oximeter readings were paired with oxygen level measurements from drawing blood. Another study of about 7,000 ...

“Give our hospitals the ability to review rigorous data on how new devices function in different patient groups.” Related: No one’s quite sure how to fix pulse oximeters. The FDA asked this ...

The primary function of a pulse oximeter is to gather health data and notify you of any unusual readings. A normal blood oxygen saturation rate is around 95% with slight variations. Readings that ...

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance would require manufacturers of pulse oximeters to gather far more clinical data to show the devices accurately work across a range of skin tones.

Pulse oximeters routinely overestimated levels of oxygen in the blood in darker-skinned Covid patients, leading to delays in treatment and hospital readmissions, according to a research article ...