MarketWatch

SKOKIE-BASED CONCORD HEALTH SUPPLY IS NATION'S TOP DISTRIBUTOR OF WIRECUTTER'S BEST FINGERTIP PULSE OXIMETER

SKOKIE, Ill., Jan. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A fingertip pulse oximeter distributed by Concord Health Supply, Inc., a family-owned business in Skokie, is earning praise as the best in class for home ...
STAT

Lawsuit to fix pulse oximeter bias makes progress with device manufacturers

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. In 2022, Noha Aboelata noticed something troubling. The founding CEO ...
Healthcare Dive

FDA issues much-anticipated guidance on pulse oximeters

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday released much-anticipated testing recommendations for pulse oximeters. The draft guidance follows years of discussion about concerns that the devices can be ...
The Hill

FDA convenes meeting on ‘mounting real-world evidence’ pulse oximeters are less accurate for people with darker skin

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a meeting on Tuesday to examine and discuss what an agency panel called “mounting real-world evidence” suggesting that pulse oximeter devices do not provide ...
STAT

Pulse oximeters and their inaccuracies will get FDA scrutiny. What took so long?

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday will take up the issue of whether pulse oximeters, the ubiquitous medical devices that became a mainstay for assessing patient oxygen levels ...
EurekAlert!

Updating pulse oximeters

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 ...
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.
Healio

Educational intervention lowers pulse oximeter misuse in ICU

After an educational presentation on the proper use of pulse oximeters, off-label placement of the sensors decreased from 15.2% to 1.6%, according to a study published in Critical Care Nurse. After ...
MedPage Today

Commonly Used Fingertip Pulse Oximeters Not Up to Snuff

Among 11 fingertip pulse oximeters used during hypoxemia in healthy participants, five devices had a root mean square error (ARMS) >3%, which falls outside the ...
Oregonian

Experts say new FDA guidance may not go far enough to address pulse oximeters’ racial bias

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 urgent risk of ...
MM&M

FDA’s promised rules on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias

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 urgent risk of ...