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The US Food and Drug Administration warned that the pulse oximeters, which have increased in use during the COVID-19 pandemic, may yield inaccurate results.

Experts and lawmakers have expressed concern about potential racial disparities in the readings of pulse oximeters.

Sean Key says: This is a burning issue that does need resolving. However, in the middle of a 1-100 year pandemic in which citizens could benefit from using pulse oximeters at home to spot early signs of deterioration, getting admitted to hospital earlier and having a much shorter stay in hospital, we need to be careful about what messages we send to the wider population. Headlines have been disseminated from this article that ‘Pulse Oximeters are racist’ which play into the current p...

Updated February 8 A pulse oximeter measures blood oxygen levels and is one of the key ways to determine how serious someones case of COVID-19 is. But its not always a racially equitable device. It can produce inaccurate results for people with darker skin tones. And we know that thanks to an Oregonian. THE FINDING: Michael Sjoding, a pulmonary physician and professor based in Michigan and originally from Salem, Ore., conducted a study on the device, which was published in December. His fi...

Widely used medical device has higher error rate in darker skin, study suggest Widely used medical device has higher error rate in darker skin, study suggest Popular medical device, pulse oximeter, is showing false readings for people with darker skins, leaving medical professionals concerned in a pandemic thats disproportionately impacted black and brown communities. Candese Charles reports. OAKLAND, Calif. - Pulse oximeters are widely used medical devices. During the pandemic theyve been used...

Blood Oxygen Tests Can Be Inaccurate for Black Patients, Raising COVID Risks Amy Norton, HealthDay News, December 18, 2020 The fingertip devices that hospitals use to monitor patients’ oxygen levels might be less accurate in people with dark skin, a new study suggests. At issue are pulse oximeters — small medical devices that clip onto a fingertip and estimate how much oxygen is making it into the blood. They are routinely used in hospitals to help providers make treatment decisions. And du...

Blood oxygen tests may be inaccurate for Black patients By (0) A new study suggests that Black patients are at greater risk of having a falsely reassuring reading on pulse oximetry than white patients are. File Photo by Molly Riley/UPI | License Photo The fingertip devices that hospitals use to monitor patients oxygen levels might be less accurate in people with dark skin, a new study suggests. At issue are pulse oximeters -- small medical devices that clip onto a fingertip and estimate how m...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The common fingertip devices that measure oxygen in the blood are increasingly finding their way into peoples homes because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These pulse ox devices can sometimes give misleading readings, though, in people with dark skin. Thats according to a new study. NPR science correspondent Richard Harris reports. RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: When Detroits hospitals started to overflow with COVID patients earlier this year, some patients ended up at the Univer...

Angus Mordant / Bloomberg via Getty Images Originally published on December 16, 2020 1:24 pm The common fingertip devices that measures oxygen in the blood can sometimes give misleading readings in people with dark skin, according to a report Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. These devices, called pulse oximeters, are increasingly finding their way into peoples homes, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, this is not just a concern for medical personnel using professiona...

Researchers looked at readings of pulse oximeters, which measure oxygen levels, of black patients and white patients  In 12% of cases for black patients, they were discrepancies that showed normal oximeter readings, but low levels when a blood test was performed These same discrepancies only occurred in 3% of cases among white patients Previous studies have found that pulse oximeters are more likely to be inaccurate in people with darker skin pigmentation