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Clipped to a fingertip, a pulse oximeter uses light beams to analyze your heart rate and the amount of oxygen being carried in your bloodstream. Normal levels in otherwise-healthy adults range between ...

We’re always looking for interesting biohacks here on Hackaday, and this new research article describing a calibrated pulse oximeter for different skin tones really caught our attention. Their idea ...

Monitoring your oxygen level with a pulse oximeter if you have COVID-19 can help determine if it falls too low. Low levels may need medical attention. COVID-19 is a respiratory infection. It can cause ...

Stuart Marshall is a councillor (non-executive director) for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) David A. Story is a councillor (non-executive director) for the Australian ...

Before the coronavirus pandemic, most Americans had heard about pulse oximeters only via TV shows where EMTs shout out a patient’s “pulse ox” — or measure of oxygen in the blood. But when multiple ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashraf Fawzy remembers one patient, a Black woman with asthma, who arrived in the intensive care unit of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Despite her pulse oximeter ...

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 ...

The devices are one of several tools used by doctors to manage patients. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel suggested on Tuesday that pulse oximeters should be improved because they may not ...