FDA’s Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely To End Decades of Racial Bias

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FDA’s Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely To End Decades of Racial Bias - The Sacramento Observer

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By Arthur Allen | KFF Health News | Special to the OBSERVER OAKLAND, Calif. (KFF) — The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema. The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well above the 88% blood oxygen saturation level that signals an urgent risk of organ failure and death. Yet his […]

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