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The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure.

Pulse oximeters were invented in 1974, and the evidence of flawed pulse oximeter readings in people with dark skin dates to the 1980s. One study, published in 2022, found that among more than ...

The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure.

In 1995 Nonin Medical revolutionized pulse oximetry with the Onyx. Hundreds of thousands of people trust Onyx, the first self-contained digital fingertip pulse oximeter. Incorporating the ...

The pulse tone can be switched off and has an adjustable volume. For documentation purposes, the stored SpO2 and pulse values can be transmitted to a printer or to a PC by using the integrated ...

Image: Adobe Stock In this review, pulse oximeter inaccuracy due to darker skin tones was found in 30 out of 44 assessed studies. Prior to issuing this draft guidance, the FDA’s Medical Devices ...

The question of how skin pigmentation affects the performance of pulse oximeters has drawn the U.S. FDA’s close attention for several years, and the agency issued a draft guidance to address these ...