Digital health and fitness company WHOOP has released the latest version of its wearable, the WHOOP 4.0. The new wearable includes haptic alerts that use gentle vibrations to awaken the wearer based ...

As the FDA convenes an advisory committee meeting to discuss recent studies showing that many pulse oximeters are less effective when used on patients with darker skin, BioIntelliSense is getting a ...

The MAXREFDES220# reference design provides everything you need to quickly prototype your product to measure finger-based heart rate and blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2). The MAXREFDES220# ...

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Taiwan Biophotonic Co., a leading provider of non-invasive vital signs sensing solutions, today announced the release of its DOE reflective sensor for fingerless wrist-worn pulse oximeters, which ...

If these devices are not calibrated for darker skin tones, the pigmentation of the skin could affect how that light is absorbed by the sensor, leading to erroneous oxygen readings. Pulse oximeters ...

Early in the pandemic, when COVID-19 patients were turning up at emergency rooms with dangerously low blood oxygen levels, many people rushed to add pulse oximeters to their home medicine cabinet. The ...

As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Owais Durrani sees this issue regularly first-hand: When he clamps a pulse oximeter onto a patient's fingertip to measure their blood oxygen levels, the small ...

GE HealthCare is warning healthcare providers that tens of thousands of its TruSignal pulse oximeters sold in the last few years could potentially put hospitalized patients at risk of a worsened ...

Evidence is mounting that devices widely used to measure blood oxygen levels can be inaccurate in people of colour 1, 2, 3. As a result, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to propose that ...

Pulse oximeter accuracy has generally been found to be lowest at oxygen saturations below 80% and highest at saturations of 90-100%. According to the Agency, pulse oximeter readings should be used as ...