Pulse oximeters designed for home use have been available for some time. But in recent years, their popularity has grown as people increasingly prioritize wellness and actively seek convenient ways to ...

Stuart Marshall is a councillor (non-executive director) for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) David A. Story is a councillor (non-executive director) for the Australian ...

Finger pulse oximeters are usually found at doctors’ offices and hospitals, but what you may not know is that you can also buy one to use at home. There are several different brands and designs ...

Doctors may recommend pulse oximeters for people with certain health conditions who need to measure their blood oxygen levels at home. These devices may be helpful for individuals of any age.

Amid a national reckoning with racism spurred by the COVID-19 death rate among Black Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's standards for pulse oximeters – those all-too-common devices ...

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 ...

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 ...