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FDA's promised guidelines on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias - CBS News
For decades, widely used pulse oximeters have underestimated the oxygen needs of darker-skinned patients. Will the FDA's new guidelines fix that?
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FDA issues draft guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people with darker skin tones - CNN
Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now the US Food and Drug Administration is proposing guidance to help make ...
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New FDA guidance aims to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people of color - The Hill
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance would require manufacturers of pulse oximeters to gather far more clinical data to show the devices accurately work across a range of skin tones.
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FDA recommends more robust testing of pulse oximeters to avoid bias in people with dark skin tone - Star Tribune
It also not does address oximeters marketed as “health and wellness” devices, which typically are cheaper than FDA-cleared pulse oximeters and are sold over-the-counter.
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FDA issues much-anticipated guidance on pulse oximeters
By comparison, the last set of recommendations around pulse oximeters, which the FDA issued in a 2013 guidance, said that studies should include at least 10 people and include at least two people ...
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Experts say new FDA guidance may not go far enough to address pulse oximeters’ racial bias - oregonlive
In a 2007 draft guidance document, the FDA suggested that tests of new oximeters could “include a sufficient number of subjects with dark skin pigmentation, e.g., 30%.” ...
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FDA's promised guidelines on pulse oximeters unlikely to end racial bias - MSN
FDA's promised guidelines on pulse oximeters unlikely to end racial bias. Story by Guest Author • 5mo. Oakland, California — The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema.
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FDA issues draft guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people with darker skin tones
The FDA held two advisory panel meetings — in 2022 and 2024 — to discuss the accuracy of pulse oximeters and ways to improve and evaluate their performance, and the agency issued a safety ...
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FDA’s promised guidance on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias
State attorneys general and U.S. senators have pressed the FDA to take steps to eliminate pulse oximetry’s racial bias, which has caused delays in treatment and worse health outcomes, and more ...
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FDA's Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely to End Decades of Racial Bias - Medpage Today
Pulmonology > General Pulmonology FDA's Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely to End Decades of Racial Bias — Devices three times as likely to miss dangerously low blood oxygen in Black ...
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FDA’s promised rules on pulse oximeters unlikely to end decades of racial bias
Its regulatory pathway for pulse oximeters clears them for sale as long as they show “substantial equivalence” to devices already on the market. In a 2007 draft guidance document, the FDA suggested ...