Patients with darker skin tones have peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) readings that are higher than patients with a ...

This large prospective UK study compared five low-cost fingertip pulse oximeters with arterial blood gas measurements and ...

"Although absolute differences in readings were small, they can result in substantially higher rates of false negatives and ...

Apple has just announced a software update that will enable the missing blood oxygen level measurement capability on the Apple Watch. The update will enable the biosensing feature on the Watch Series ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I see smart watches that are advertised to measure heart rates, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and even glucose levels. Are these things accurate? -- A.K. ANSWER: The quality of ...

Apple removed blood oxygen monitoring from the Apple Watch in early 2024. Somebody has to blink for it to return, and it looks like neither Masimo nor Apple are going to budge. Blood oxygen monitoring ...

Nothing captivates patient (or physician) imagination quite like oxygen. Its power and necessity are considered self-evident. Also a given is the need for saturation to be 90% or above. It’s a nice ...

Tucked away in some Garmin watches is a sensor that enables continuous blood oxygen monitoring, a feature the company refers to as ‘Pulse Ox’. You may have seen the feature appear in menus or in ...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a significant complication in critical care patients. COVID-19 (C19)-associated severe respiratory failure is related to it, and d-dimer rise predicts a worse ...

The companies plan to co-develop solutions that support the integration of Raydiant Oximetry’s fetal pulse oximetry technology into GE HealthCare’s fetal monitoring and digital perinatal surveillance ...

I never considered myself claustrophobic until the door was shut. "Once I close this, you can't come out right away," an attendant told me as she stood outside my hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Next ...

A recent study finds most critically injured patients can recover with less supplemental oxygen than has previously been suggested. When a critically injured patient is admitted to the hospital, how ...