digiDoc Pulse Oximeter is an iPhone app that uses your camera to measure your heart rate and your oxygen level. Apps that measure your heart rate are a dime a dozen, but this is one that combines ...

Pulse oximetry is a means for non-invasive monitoring of oxygen saturation in blood. It employs an indirect method of assessing these conditions immediately just by clipping a sensor onto your finger ...

Pulse oximeters measure blood oxygen level — how much oxygen is present in your blood and how well it is transported to the extremities (blood pressure monitors are different). Medical pulse oximeters ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate pulse oximetry in neonates who require arterial access as represented by the clinical data recorded to manage their care. CONCLUSION: These operational data suggest that with ...

Across the healthcare landscape, more and more conversations are focusing on health inequity. Specific to pulse oximetry, recent research, media, and regulatory discussions have been raising awareness ...

A major UK study shows that commonly used home pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin, increasing the risk of undetected hypoxemia and raising urgent questions about ...

As the founder and chief executive of Masimo Corp., I co-invented the modern day, measure-through motion and low perfusion pulse oximeter (SET Pulse Oximeter) and have spent my life in pursuit of data ...

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.

(CNN)-- 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 ...

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 ...