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 ...

Keeping track of your basic vital statistics used to involve a trip to the doctor's office where you would be subjected to ...

Pulse oximeters are becoming increasingly popular for home use, as people buy them to monitor if someone in the family becomes seriously ill with Covid-19. The devices, which measure the percentage of ...

Using different oximeter devices for monitoring stable patients under NIV or CPAP may have an unpredictable effect on results and clinical decisions.