Normal Ranges Most people have a normal resting pulse oximetry reading for oxygen saturation (SpO2) between 95% and 100%. This shows that your blood has an appropriate amount of oxygen.

Pulse oximetry can estimate the levels of oxygen in your blood. Find out how a pulse oximetry test works, what it's used for, and what the readings mean.

Pulse oximeters were invented in 1974, and a body of research – dating to the 1980s – suggests that flawed pulse oximeter readings among Black and brown patients can be a real and life ...

Due to faulty oximeter readings, non-white patients were more likely to receive delayed Covid-19 treatments like dexamethasone or remdesivir, which can help reduce death and hospitalizations.

Among the inpatients who received oxygen supplementation and had an oxygen saturation of 92% to 96% on pulse oximetry, researchers observed an arterial oxygen saturation less than 88% in 88 of 749 ...

Meanwhile, a different study published last week in the BMJ suggests that imperfect readings from pulse oximeters may impact care of Black patients broadly, not merely those who are critically ill ...

The retrospective study involved pulse oximeter readings from 7,126 COVID-19 patients who received care across five hospitals at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System between March 2020 and ...

Black people in the hospital are 31.9% more likely than White patients to have pulse oximeter readings that overestimate their oxygen levels by at least 4 percentage points, according to data ...

Pro tip: One of the things to remember about reading a pulse oximeter is that many of them are designed to be read by someone facing you, not the person wearing it. The first time I tried my home ...

Normal Ranges Most people have a normal resting pulse oximetry reading for oxygen saturation (SpO2) between 95% and 100%. This shows that your blood has an appropriate amount of oxygen.