Pulse oximeter devices routinely overestimate blood oxygen levels in darker-skinned patients—a racial bias that can trigger ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black patients waited one hour longer for access to COVID-19 treatments due to a medical device that works worse for people of ...

Patients with darker skin who received less accurate readings of their oxygen levels using pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices clamped on hospitalized patients’ fingers — also received less ...

(CNN)-- Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger -- one of the many devices he uses to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Medical assistant Evelyn Rivas removes a pulse oximeter from patient Ja-Mey Scott's index finger at Roots Community Health Center ...

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 ...

Manufacturers of pulse oximeters continue to stand by their accuracy, despite mounting evidence that the devices produce flawed readings in non-white patients. It’s been known for decades that the ...

Early in the pandemic, when COVID-19 patients were turning up at emergency rooms with dangerously low blood oxygen levels, many people rushed to add pulse oximeters to their home medicine cabinet. The ...

As a triple threat of respiratory illnesses – flu, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV – sweeps the United States, emergency departments are using one small tool more than usual to ...

(KRON) — Inaccurate readings of blood oxygen levels may have led to a disproportionate amount of deaths in people of color being treated for COVID-19. That’s according to a recent study by Sutter ...

A medical device that measures blood oxygen levels doesn't work as well for Black and Hispanic COVID-19 patients. A new study found inaccurate blood oxygen level readings led to delayed care for Black ...