A pulse oximeter is a routine clinical monitor that’s been in use in and out of hospital for years. Most types you can buy for use at home are designed like a large clothes peg you clip onto ...

More than two full years into the COVID-19 pandemic, science can't seem to agree on whether pulse oximeters are truly helpful for people at home recovering from the illness. The conflicting views ...

Many people first learned about a pulse oximeter in the early days of the pandemic, after doctors warned that some patients with Covid-19 develop a form of oxygen deprivation called “silent ...

Pulse oximeters are widely used in hospitals and clinics to monitor blood oxygen levels. These small, noninvasive devices ...

Individuals are monitored from home using hospital-supplied kits. A new digital model of care for heart failure patients is ...

Add finger pulse oximeters to the list of things that have become suddenly scarce during the coronavirus pandemic, which has already changed our lives in myriad ways. Concerned consumers have been ...

Pulse oximeters’ overestimation of oxygen levels in patients with darker skin has, in a slew of recent research studies, been linked to poorer outcomes for many patients because of delayed ...

Problems with pulse oximeters have been known for decades, but it wasn’t until the pandemic that the real dangers to Black patients became clear.

MarketsandMarkets Logo. The global pulse oximeters market, valued at US$3.59 billion in 2024, stood at US$3.92 billion in 2025 and is projected to advance at a resilient CAGR of 8.7% from 2025 to ...

The devices are one of several tools used by doctors to manage patients. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel suggested on Tuesday that pulse oximeters should be improved because they may not ...

As blood gas monitoring evolved and pulse oximeters became ubiquitous in health care by the late 1980s, Severinghaus and his lab spent time evaluating how well they worked.