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  2. An essential medical device fails people of color. A clinic ...

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    Inaccurate pulse oximeter readings are more common in Black patients than non-Black ones. It was a problem that could be ignored — until COVID-19 hit. An essential medical device fails people of ...

  3. FDA reviews evidence pulse oximeters less accurate on ... - AOL

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    The Medical Devices Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently met to review the reported inaccuracy of pulse oximetry in patients with darker skin. The meeting ...

  4. Michigan AG presses FDA to toughen stance on racial ... - AOL

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    Inaccurate pulse oximeter readings among Black and brown people exacerbate racial health disparities, the attorneys general said, and can lead to delayed treatment, a lower rate of hospital ...

  5. Pulse oximetry - Wikipedia

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    A pulse oximeter probe applied to a person's finger. A pulse oximeter is a medical device that indirectly monitors the oxygen saturation of a patient's blood (as opposed to measuring oxygen saturation directly through a blood sample) and changes in blood volume in the skin, producing a photoplethysmogram that may be further processed into other measurements. [4]

  6. FDA advisory panel reviewing pulse oximeter accuracy with ...

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    The accuracy of pulse oximeters for people with dark skin tones is now being reviewed. An FDA advisory panel met Friday to talk about how to make these devices more accurate for people with darker ...

  7. Oxygen saturation (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Example pulse oximeter. Pulse oximetry is a method used to estimate the percentage of oxygen bound to hemoglobin in the blood. [10] This approximation to SaO 2 is designated SpO 2 (peripheral oxygen saturation). The pulse oximeter is a small device that clips to the body (typically a finger, an earlobe or an infant's foot) and displays its ...

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