The Apple Watch Series 6 has a sensor built in that can measure the oxygen level in the blood. This ability could have a real benefit in judging health and reacting to the first signs of conditions ...

Covidien ($COV) nailed down a 510(k) clearance, this time for a group of next-generation Nellcor pulse oximetry monitoring devices--a regulatory win that will likely ...

With the Apple Watch Series 6, Apple has introduced a new sensor that can measure the saturation of blood with oxygen. What is the data good for and who will it help? Apple is introducing a new health ...

This large prospective UK study compared five low-cost fingertip pulse oximeters with arterial blood gas measurements and ...

Over the past several years, we've worked hard to try to help our colleagues discover the apps and devices that can improve the care they deliver. And there are a lot of great tools out there. But in ...

Many patients with severe cases of Covid-19 have been shown to have extremely low levels of oxygen in the blood. Others who have tested positive find themselves experiencing shortness of breath.

Optimising home oxygen delivery in infants has important logistical and safety implications. This can be aided by having a suitable reference range of normal values for arterial oxygen saturation ...

When a patient is admitted to hospital, one of the first clinical actions is to measure the concentration of oxygen in the blood by using a pulse oximeter positioned along the length of the nail. To ...

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 ...

Pulse oximetry was less accurate for people with darker skin tones in two studies, one regarding home-use devices and the ...