Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, announced verification study results for its investigational Nellcor™ ...

Respiratory problems are one of the most common symptoms for the coronavirus. Some people have wondered if using a pulse oximeter to monitor oxygen levels could help detect COVID-19 early on. The ...

A portable device used to detect blood oxygen levels revolutionized the medical field 50 years ago and is now receiving essential updates Efforts to improve the accuracy of pulse oximetry readings for ...

A pulse oximeter is a small device that can measure the oxygen saturation in your blood. Pulse oximetry is useful for people with chronic lung or heart conditions, who need to monitor how well oxygen ...

-One of healthcare’s most fundamental tools works less reliably for people with darker skin tones. - An Oakland clinic’s lawsuit is helping to change that in California. The pulse oximeter, a device ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA’s proposed changes to premarket pulse oximeter trial criteria were generally accepted by an advisory ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema. The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well above the 88% blood oxygen saturation level that signals an ...

Dr. Takuo Aoyagi, a Japanese bioengineer, was the first to invent pulse oximetry in 1974. 2 The pulse oximeter is based on the light absorption characteristics of hemoglobin at different wavelengths.