Back in September, within the introduction to my teardown of a pulse oximeter, I wrote: One upside, for lack of a better word, to my health setback [editor note: a recent, and to the best of my ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Black woman uses a pulse oximeter to check her blood oxygen saturation level and heart rate. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) For ...
Racial biases continue to be exposed in medical devices clinicians commonly use to evaluate patients. From thermometers to oximeters to X-rays, people of color receive the most inconsistent results, ...
Forehead thermometers take temperatures using infrared radiation. Whether the devices can pick up the radiation can be affected by something called skin emissivity. Skin emissivity is how much light, ...
A new study finds that temporal thermometers -- used to measure body temperature on the forehead -- may be less accurate than oral thermometers at detecting fevers among hospitalized Black patients. A ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results