Hey, if you're in the hospital, and of sound mind, and a healthcare professional tells you not to mess with something. That means leave it the fuck alone. Thanks.
#CNALIFE #pulseox

#pulseox from Barash #AnSky

Garmin Pulse Ox, cos'è, a cosa serve e a chi serve - WeAr news Prezioso indicatore della salute, negli smartwatch Garmin il livello di ossigeno nel sangue viene misurato da Pulse Ox, un pulsossimetro

www.wearnews.it/2025/04/11/g...

Prezioso indicatore della salute, negli smartwatch Garmin il livello di ossigeno nel sangue viene misurato da Pulse Ox, un pulsossimetro

#Garmin #PulseOx #pulsossimetro #SpO2 #ossigeno #comefare #howto #smartwatch #wearable #wearables #wear #WeArnews

Today is gonna be a tough one 😮‍💨 #spoons #chronicillness #chronicpain #visibleapp #healthtracker #unwell #pots #hrv #bpm #pulseox

Cover of a 1976 Hewlett Packard Journal, showing a white man on an exercise lab treadmill, with data showing HP was worried about racially disparate performance, and text saying: The easy answer: that was all that was on the market. But why hasn’t the market solved the problem racially biased pulse oximeters yet? Have they just not had enough time since Dr Fawzy’s 2022 report in JAMA IM?

Text saying: A New Question Racial bias in pulse oximetry is a long-described, technologically solvable, but unsolved threat to patient safety. It is consequential for patients and health systems. What are the institutions, organizations, and policies that have locked us into the current mediocre technology? with Tade Thompson's post saying "So many of thee tools don't recognize me as human"

Slide summarizing Kadija Ferryman's Dec 30 @jama "Wicked Problems" paper

Preparing for JHH Grand Rounds tomorrow on incomplete progress in #PulseOx --in many ways just expanding on @tadethompson.bsky.social's brilliant observation that "so many of these [medical] tools don't recognize me as human"

I cite Prof Ferryman's @jama.com article jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

FDA Guidance on Pulse Oximetry Testing Among Diverse Individuals This study examines temporal trends in US Food and Drug Administration clearance summaries for pulse oximeters that report information about race and ethnicity and/or skin color or tone.

Let us hope—and expect—that our industry colleagues do a better job of implementing this #PulseOx guidance than occurred with the 2013 guidance:

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We must demand the tools we need to provide safe, equitable care

FDA recommends fixing racial disparities in pulse oximeter readings Inaccurate readings in the medical devices led to inferior care for Black patients.

The WaPo headline and subhead are to the point:

FDA recommends fixing racial disparities in pulse oximeter readings:

Inaccurate readings in the medical devices led to inferior care for Black patients.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

#PulseOx

FDA issues draft guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people with darker skin tones | CNN Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now the US Food and Drug Administration is proposing guidance to help make these ...

New CNN Coverage of FDA's new proposed non-binding guidance on racial equity in #PulseOx, including some wise comments from @cshachar.bsky.social about reasons to hope

www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/h...

FDA releases long-awaited guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for all skin tones The FDA released long-awaited guidance proposing how manufacturers should test and label pulse oximeters

New from @statnews.com

Some @fda.gov action on #PulseOx, at long last ... but is it enough?

[Spoiler: it's a step, but many more are needed]

www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/p...

Actual text from a 2023 FDA clearance:

“12 subjects come from Africa (3), Caucasian (5) & Asian (4) which include Medium, light & dark race”

This EXCEEDS current FDA #PulseOx voluntary guidance standards, @wyden.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

We gotta do better

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Fixing pulse oximeters requires federal might and possible legal action, researchers say The devices remain unreliable in darker skinned people. Researchers say more guidance, enforcement and even legal action may be needed to spur improvement.

“More is needed to help develop and bring to market newer [ #PulseOx ] devices that don’t have the same problems,” said Shachar. “Once we have alternatives, more thinking needs to be done about whether we can remove the older devices”

www.statnews.com/2024/12/30/f... via @statnews.com

Differential Pulse Oximeter Accuracy, Occult Hypoxemia Prevalence, and Clinical Outcomes by Patient Race/Ethnicity: A Systematic Review

Fix the damn #PulseOx

Synoptic Veterans Affairs Report: Differential Pulse Oximeter Accuracy, Occult Hypoxemia Prevalence, and Clinical Outcomes by Patient Race/Ethnicity: A Systematic Review

Newly released to all: www.hsrd.research.va.gov/publications...

Six of the 11 POX tested met the FDA criteria of ARMS < 3% between the SaO2 range of 70 - 100% (Table 2). The remaining five of the 11 POX had an ARMS > 3%. Nine of 11 POX met ISO Standard criteria for ARMS < 4%. Individual oximeter performance data are presented in Table 2. The Nonin Onyx Vantage and Masimo MightySat had the best ARMS at 1·9% and 2·1%, respectively. Nine of the 11 POX demonstrated worse ARMS in study subjects categorized at the lowest third of ITA values (dark), compared with the highest third of ITA values (light), measured at the dorsal DP (Table 2). As SaO2 levels decreased, mean bias (SpO2 - SaO2) increased for ten of the 11 devices (Figure 3).

ARGH

New Healthy Volunteer data on #PulseOx

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Somehow profound racial bias data did NOT make the abstract findings, but I guess different people value different things