BMJ Open7h
COVID-19 Early Detection in Doctors and Healthcare Workers (CEDiD) study: a cohort study on the feasibility of wearable devices
Background Infectious agents such as SARS-CoV-2 require strategies to contain outbreaks, particularly in hospitals where the ...
Medscape5d
Pulse Oximeter Results Unreliable, Still
The first prospective study to look at this problem since investigators identified an issue earlier confirmed that clinicians ...
Pulse oximeter performance varies by skin pigment
The differences, or bias, between estimates of blood oxygen saturation levels as measured with pulse oximeters compared to ...
Healio6d
Accurate pulse oximetry ‘challenging’ in critically ill patients; skin pigmentation a factor
In a new study, pulse oximeters underestimated arterial oxygen saturation among patients in the ICU, and the ability of the ...
News-Medical.Net6d
Pulse oximeter accuracy varies across skin pigment groups
The differences, or bias, between estimates of blood oxygen saturation levels as measured with pulse oximeters compared to the gold-standard method of measuring oxygen saturation in arterial blood ...