EDN1d
Taking a peek inside an infrared thermometer
Back in September, within the introduction to my teardown of a pulse oximeter, I wrote: One upside, for lack of a better word ...
Psychology Today3d
Feel It Out or Think It Over: How Body Signals Guide Choices
Financial traders who were better able to count their heartbeats (without feeling for their pulse) tended to make more ...
STAT12d
Lawsuit to fix pulse oximeter bias makes progress with device manufacturers
A lawsuit against pulse oximeter manufacturers and distributors is starting to create change. But experts say the FDA needs ...
The Keene Sentinel20d
FDA’s promised guidance on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias
The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well above the 88 percent blood oxygen saturation level that signals an urgent risk of organ failure and death.
Nature22d
Removing Bias from Devices and Diagnostics Can Save Lives
Lung function helps to determine disability payments ... But the device, called a pulse oximeter, tends to overestimate oxygen saturation in people with darker skin tones. Researchers have ...
verywellhealth24d
Pulse Oximeters Are Less Accurate on Darker Skin—And There's No Good Alternative
Pulse oximeters may provide less accurate readings for individuals with darker skin tones, which can lead to delayed care. Black patients were found to be three times more likely to experience ...
Medical Xpress28d
FDA's promised guidance on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias, say experts
Months later, in December 2020, Aboelata thought back to her patient as she read a New England Journal of Medicine article showing that pulse oximeters were three times as likely to miss ...
The Daily Item28d
FDA’s promised guidance on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias
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