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Covid-19 made pulse oximeters an even more important tool for measuring the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream than they had been before. Widely used in hospitals and health systems, these small ...

Most people today are aware that Coronavirus affects the Lungs and the breathing of the patient. Infected Lungs cause Oxygen levels in the body to dip; the finger Pulse Oximeter picks this dip.

Automating the collection and presentation of healthcare data is crucial in the fight against COVID-19. It adds capacity to screening efforts by automating routine tasks, thereby allowing frontline ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashraf Fawzy remembers one patient, a Black woman with asthma, who arrived in the intensive care unit of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Despite her pulse oximeter ...

A Food and Drug Administration panel discussed Tuesday several studies that found pulse oximeters may give less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones. The studies found the devices, ...

MANGALURU: In the wake of suspicion about community transmission of covid-19 in some pockets of Dakshina Kannada district, experts feel that the authorities should go for pulse oximeter and chest ...

Although a new study showed the devices are more error-prone in people with darker skin, doctors say they are still useful for anyone monitoring Covid-19 at home. By Tara Parker-Pope Home pulse ...

District collector Ravindra Thakare has decided to stress on the ‘six-minute walk test’ for the home isolated patients by replacing the existing mode of observing the oxygen level through the pulse ...