Key Takeaways An experimental pulse oximeter can give accurate readings regardless of skin toneTraditional pulse oximeters misread oxygen levels in people with darker skin The new device adjusts for ...

For decades, pulse oximeters have been among medicine's most familiar instruments. Clip one onto a finger, and within seconds ...

Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now the US Food and Drug Administration is proposing guidance to help make these ...

Tiffany Kinyua is a psychology major with a minor in biology and she is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

Can technology make pulse oximeters work better for everyone? ChromaSense is taking a smarter, more inclusive approach to ...

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The differences, or bias, between estimates of blood oxygen saturation levels as measured with pulse oximeters compared to the gold-standard method of measuring oxygen saturation in arterial blood ...

In this article, we discuss the problem that racial bias in pulse oximetry poses, the pressure on the FDA to address that bias, and the prospects for its near-term resolution. On November 1, 2023, a ...