The last time you were in the emergency room after a horrible accident involving a PVC pressure vessel, a nurse probably clipped a device called a pulse oximeter onto one of your remaining fingers.

When Carolyn Hendrickson checked the data from her intensive care patients, there was no doubt about it. A clear pattern ...

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In a new study, pulse oximeters underestimated arterial oxygen saturation among patients in the ICU, and the ability of the ...

The first prospective study to look at this problem since investigators identified an issue earlier confirmed that clinicians ...

The differences, or bias, between estimates of blood oxygen saturation levels as measured with pulse oximeters compared to ...

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The late engineer Takuo Aoyagi has received the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Honorary Member Award for developing the technology for pulse oximeters, which became a lifeline for COVID ...