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Pulse oximeters can reportedly overestimate blood oxygen levels in darker-skinned people, making them appear healthier.

Pulse oximeters may be inaccurate on people of color, FDA warns By Kate Gibson Doctor argues why pulse oximeters are needed Pulse oximeters — viewed as a critical in the fight against COVID-19 — may not work as advertised for people of color. "The devices may be less accurate in people with dark skin pigmentation," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated in a safety notice posted on Friday. The FDAs warning offers a toned-down version of recent and even years-ago ...

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...

 E-Mail Thousands of times a day, doctors and nurses use a small device called a pulse oximeter--which fits on the end of a patients finger to measure the percentage of oxygen in the blood--to help them make vital treatment decisions. However, a new study by Michigan Medicine researchers finds that the pulse oximeter may be less accurate in Black patients than in White patients. "These results really surprised all of us," says Michael Sjoding, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine in ...