Por: Forbes Business January 31, 2023
Since the start of the pandemic, the popular medical device has been indispensable for measuring oxygen in the blood, but dangerously inaccurate in patients with darker skin. Now the FDA is in the hot seat and Black researchers are working on a cure. the most common medical device on Earth aside from the thermometer? Particularly galling is the fact that for years that pulse oximeters are less accurate on people with darker skin because of how... + full article
Forbes USA Tech December 23, 2022
Ron Erickson is the founder and chairman of a company working to deliver the first FDA-cleared noninvasive glucose monitor. getty Every day, millions of medical professionals around the world clamp pulse oximeters on the fingertips of their patients to painlessly measure vital... + más
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NEW YORK — The clip-on devices that use light to measure oxygen levels in the blood are getting a closer look from U.S. regulators after recent studies suggest they don’t work as well for patients of color. The devices, called pulse oximeters, usually snap onto a finger and... + más
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel suggested on Tuesday that pulse oximeters should be improved because they may not give accurate results to people of color.Pulse oximeters measure oxygen levels, but studies have shown that the small devices overestimate oxygen levels in... + más
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NEW YORK – The clip-on devices that use light to measure oxygen levels in the blood are getting a closer look from U.S. regulators after recent studies suggest they don't work as well for patients of color. The devices, called pulse oximeters, usually snap onto a finger... + más
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Associated Press USA Tech November 01, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — The clip-on devices that use light to measure oxygen levels in the blood are getting a closer look from U.S. regulators after recent studies suggest they don’t work as well for patients of color. The devices, called pulse oximeters, usually snap onto a finger... + más
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Navigate Filter by topic Settings Front page layout Site theme Comment activity Sign up or login to join the discussions! Sign up to comment and more - Sep 15, 2022 11:04 pm UTC / A nurse uses a pulse oximeter on a patient in Plainfield, New Jersey, on October 26, 2016. Share... + más
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