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A paramedic uses a pulse oximeter to check a patient's vital signs during an August home visit in the Bronx borough of New York. Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images Devices Used In COVID-19 Treatment Can Give Errors For Patients With Dark Skin By at 2:01 pm NPR 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 people's homes, because ...

© Istock A medical device that measures oxygen blood levels is more likely to give misleading or inaccurate results to Black patients, according to research published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers analyzed data from thousands of adult patients who received supplemental oxygen at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, comparing the data to that of 37,000 patients at about 200 other hospitals’ intensive care units. The finger-worn pulse oximeter, they found, was more likely to return inaccurate results for Black users based on comparisons of the dat...

Devices Used In COVID-19 Treatment Can Give Errors For Patients With Dark Skin Wednesday, December 16, 2020 A paramedic uses a pulse oximeter to check a patient's vital signs during an August home visit in the Bronx borough of New York. Angus Mordant / Bloomberg via Getty Images 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 people's homes, because ...

 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 patient's 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 the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine. As he and his colleagues cared for critically...

Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images A paramedic uses a pulse oximeter to check a patient's vital signs during an August home visit in the Bronx borough of New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images 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 int...