A recent study found that a key tool for reading blood oxygen can give inaccurate readings for Black and Hispanic patients. Pulse oximeters are placed on a person’s finger and can help monitor how ...

The common fingertip devices that measure oxygen in the blood are increasingly finding their way into people's homes because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These pulse ox devices can sometimes give ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pulse oximeter on a patient's finger. (Christoph Soeder/Getty Images) The pulse oximeter, a device that measures the degree to ...

The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, shows the inaccuracies in oxygen measurement occurred at higher rates than in white patients not only in Black patients, but also in Hispanic and Asian ...

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 ...

A recent study by Michigan Medicine researchers found that pulse oximeters — small blood-oxygen reading devices that clip to the finger — were found to be less accurate in Black patients than in ...

Survey: Pulse Oximetry Sensor Oxygen Reading Troubles Plague 53% Anesthesiologists A recent survey by the International Anesthesia Research Society found frequent problems with pulse oximetry sensors, ...

With iOS 26.4, Apple has added Blood Oxygen readings back to the Vitals graph in the Health app. This is how it worked before the feature was removed in January 2024. This means you can now view five ...

Apple may soon add to the health-tracking features in Apple Watch with the ability to detect users’ blood oxygen levels and notify users when these are at a dangerously low level. 9to5Mac discovered ...

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