At-home health monitoring is becoming more and more accessible. With tools like personal pulse oximeters, health-conscious individuals can feel in charge of their own physical health and doctors can ...

— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, pulse oximeters were tough to ...

Which pulse oximeter is best? Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, most people had likely never heard of a pulse oximeter. Now, this handy, potentially life-saving device has become ...

Before the coronavirus pandemic, most Americans had heard about pulse oximeters only via TV shows where EMTs shout out a patient’s “pulse ox” — or measure of oxygen in the blood. But when multiple ...

A tiny fingertip device can give you valuable information about your health during a bout of Covid-19 or any respiratory illness. By Tara Parker-Pope After working for 10 days at Bellevue Hospital in ...

Dr. Takuo Aoyagi, a Japanese bioengineer, was the first to invent pulse oximetry in 1974. 2 The pulse oximeter is based on the light absorption characteristics of hemoglobin at different wavelengths.

Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger — one of the many devices he uses to gauge ...

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 ...

The common fingertip devices that measures oxygen in the blood can sometimes give misleading readings in people with dark skin, according to a report Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.