The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure.

Pulse oximeters have been used increasingly during the coronavirus pandemic in hospital and the community A device designed to spot early signs of dangerous falls in oxygen levels in Covid ...

She has multiple chronic health problems, including heart failure, and uses an oxygen tank at home. But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized was denied, Starr said, because readings ...

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 The draft guidance follows years of discussion about concerns that the devices can ...

Minnesota medtech companies have said they were working on boosting clinical trial diversity and oximeter accuracy prior to the long-awaited release of the FDA’s draft document. The new ...

Opens in a new tab or window There was "low but improving uptake" of reporting about the diversity of participants in summary documents for FDA-cleared pulse oximeters after voluntary guidance was ...

FILE - A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level of another after administering COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Gauhati, India, Jan. 21, 2021. WASHINGTON (AP ...

Federal health officials are proposing changes to make sure medical devices that measure oxygen levels are working for patients of color FILE - A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the ...