The common medical devices don’t work as well for Black patients. The FDA is now trying to do something about it.

At a CVS store in a racially diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn Center, the only devices available to shoppers to measure their blood-oxygen levels are virtually unregulated fingertip oximeters that may ...

Hundreds of thousands of people trust Onyx, the first self-contained digital fingertip pulse oximeter. Incorporating the electronics and sensor into one unit – the easy-to-use Onyx provides a ...

Pulse oximeters are small finger-clamp devices that estimate how much oxygen is being carried in the blood. Available both over the counter and by prescription, they grew in popularity during the ...

The guidance affects several types of the device, including those for the ear and more common clamplike fingertip pulse oximeters shining bright light through the blood, measuring how it reflects ...

Individuals with darker skin tones may have difficulty using certain medical equipment according to recent studies.

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Pulse oximeters clip on to a person’s finger and use two wavelengths of light sent into the skin to quickly estimate how much oxygen is flowing through the blood based on how much light is absorbed.

But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized was denied, Starr said, because readings from a pulse oximeter on her finger falsely indicated that she was getting plenty of air on her own.

(CNN) — 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 ...