Oxygen equipment vital for keeping people alive doesn't work as well on black patients, study finds
Oxygen equipment vital for keeping people alive doesn't work as well on black patients, study finds It has critical implications for the safe treatment of severely ill Covid patients 16 December 2020 • 10:00pm A hospital worker checks a patient's oxygen saturation levels Credit: Sergei Bobylev/TASS Oxygen monitoring equipment vital for keeping patients alive in intensive care work less well on black people, a new study has found. Doctors at the University of Michigan established that the oximeter, which fits to the end of the finger, was three times more likely to give an inaccurate reading...
Source: telegraph.co.uk