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Medtronic dismissed from pulse oximeter lawsuit, FDA still working on guidance

In a suit filed against CVS, Walgreens, GE Healthcare and many other medical technology companies and sellers of pulse oximeters – devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – ...
UC San Francisco

UCSF Launches Initiative to Address Disparities in Pulse Oximetry Performance

The UCSF Hypoxia Laboratory and UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA) are formally launching the Open Oximetry Project, a multi-year initiative to improve access to safe ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Racial and Ethnic Bias in Pulse Oximetry Is Failing Patients

Acknowledging the disparity in pulse oximetry implicates a $2 billion industry that has faced stricter regulations in recent years in an attempt to address bias in the development and testing of these ...
Business Wire

Masimo Announces the First FDA-cleared “Over-the-Counter” Fingertip Pulse Oximeter

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today FDA clearance of MightySat ® Medical, making it the first and only FDA-cleared medical fingertip pulse oximeter available ...
Business Wire

Study Investigates Accuracy of Respiration Rate Obtained From Pulse Oximetry on Pediatric Patients Using Masimo RRp

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the results of a study published in Pneumonia in which independent researchers in New Delhi, India, investigated the ...
EDN

Pulse Oximeter Primer

A Pulse Oximeter is a very useful and affordable medical device that clamps on one of your fingers. A typical pulse oximeter incorporates a quick and easy way of measuring your heart rate as well as ...
FierceBiotech

FDA issues draft guidance on ensuring pulse oximeter accuracy across skin tones

The FDA has published a set of long-awaited recommendations to the industry to help ensure pulse oximeters work correctly across all skin tones. The agency’s new draft guidance document comes after ...
CNN

FDA panel recommends more diversity in pulse oximeter trials

The longstanding problem of pulse oximeters providing less-accurate readings for people with dark skin tones got another look Friday from a panel of experts for the US Food and Drug Administration.
STAT

Pulse oximeters’ inaccuracies in darker-skinned people require urgent action, AGs tell FDA

More than two dozen attorneys general are urging Food and Drug Administration officials to take urgent action to address disparities in how well pulse oximeters, the fingertip devices used to monitor ...
Consumer Reports

Pulse Oximeters Don't Work as Well for People With Dark Skin. Scientists Are Racing to Fix Them.

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Kimani Toussant’s wife, an epidemiologist, brought him an article about how pulse oximeters appeared to be less accurate in people with darker skin. The small ...
NPR

Coronavirus FAQS: What's A Pulse Oximeter? Is It A Good Idea To Buy One?

Each week we answer some of your pressing questions about the coronavirus and how to stay safe. Email us your questions at [email protected] with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." ...