A new artificial intelligence algorithm may be able to replace the bulky and often expensive equipment typically used in sleep studies to produce accurate diagnoses of apneas and other disorders.

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 ...

Share on Pinterest A pulse oximetry test may clip to a finger to read blood flow. Every system and organ in the body needs oxygen to survive. Without oxygen, cells begin to malfunction and eventually ...

June 15, 2011 (Washington, DC) — New Jersey has become the first US state to require that every newborn baby be tested for congenital heart disease using pulse-oximetry testing [1,2]. Other states are ...

A recent study by Michigan Medicine researchers found that pulse oximeters — small blood-oxygen reading devices that clip to the finger — were found to be less accurate in Black patients than in ...