In the drive to design and develop new portable patient-monitoring devices, legions of medical device manufacturers have been bitten by the miniaturization bug. But further miniaturization depends on ...

A portable device used to detect blood oxygen levels revolutionized the medical field 50 years ago and is now receiving essential updates Efforts to improve the accuracy of pulse oximetry readings for ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today FDA clearance of MightySat ® Medical, making it the first and only FDA-cleared medical fingertip pulse oximeter available ...

A new study is investigating whether ear oxygen monitoring could be more precise than fingertip tests.

Masimo recently announced the recall of some of its Rad-G pulse oximeters after reports of unintended change of device power state. Nabbing FDA clearance in September 2020, Rad-G is a portable SET ...

As a triple threat of respiratory illnesses – flu, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV – sweeps the United States, emergency departments are using one small tool more than usual to ...

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If you’ve ever had a medical team investigating cardiac issues, you’ve probably had a bunch of electrodes stuck all over your chest and been hooked up to an electrocardiogram. This is the gold ...

A retrospective analysis of more than 7,000 patients with COVID-19 found that pulse oximeter devices—tools that measure oxygen levels in the blood and that are used in virtually every U.S.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recently found that a device used to measure oxygen levels might be overestimating those levels in children of different races, which could ...

Newswise — For decades, pulse oximeters have been one of medicine’s most familiar instruments. Clip one onto a finger, and within seconds it reports how much oxygen is in your blood, a vital ...

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 ...