(CNN)-- Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger -- one of the many devices he uses to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made the pulse oximeter something of a household item, for at least a large chunk of the public. The devices, which measure a person’s pulse and the amount of oxygen carried ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA announced its draft guidance on recommendations for studies assessing pulse oximeters to ensure the ...

Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their products work for patients of color, under a new federal proposal released ...

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 ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, one measurement became more important than almost any other — blood oxygen saturation. It was the one ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA’s proposed changes to premarket pulse oximeter trial criteria were generally accepted by an advisory ...

As a triple threat of respiratory illnesses – flu, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV – sweeps the United States, emergency departments are using one small tool more than usual to ...

Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger — one of the many devices he uses to gauge ...

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