"I'm a registered nurse, and I thought there could be a way to obtained three vital signs in one easy step," said an inventor, from Romeoville, Ill., "so I invented the FINGER BLOOD PRESSURE, PULSE, ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking public comment on new recommendations for nonclinical and clinical performance testing to support premarket submissions for pulse oximeters for medical ...

Sleep studies often use a pulse oximeter to determine the severity of sleep apnea. But a new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham reports that pulse oximeters may undercount breathing ...

A controlled laboratory study evaluating four consumer pulse oximeters found that measurement agreement shifted significantly ...

Anything below that requires medical consultation. For patients with COPD or type-2 respiratory failure, carbon dioxide ...

iHealth Labs, a California-based subsidiary of China's Andon Health is expanding its line of iOS-enabled wireless health peripherals, the company announced at CES Las Vegas this week. The company will ...

-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 ...

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 ...

Masimo, a medical device maker founded in 1989, has released a commercially-available iOS-enabled pulse oximeter called the iSpO2. Pulse oximeters, which have long been a core product of Masimo, ...

A spate of studies published in recent years describe how many widely used, FDA-cleared pulse oximeters have a habit of producing inaccurate results for many nonwhite patients. (Getty Images) ...

News of US President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 infection spread around the world, particularly when his medical team announced that his blood oxygen levels had dropped twice, requiring oxygen treatments ...