标题: How BloodVitals SPO2 Helps Manage Chronic Conditions [打印本页] 作者: WindySessi 时间: 6 天前 标题: How BloodVitals SPO2 Helps Manage Chronic Conditions For many patients, a pulse oximeter is a familiar machine from visits to the doctor’s office. Placed on a finger or a patient’s ear lobe, pulse oximeters are a simple approach to rapidly get a measure of someone’s oxygen saturation (SpO2), which should typically be above ninety p.c. But the machine may be contributing to disparities in care based mostly on a patient’s race. For many years, it’s been identified that skin pigmentation and melanin can have an effect on a pulse oximeter’s means to accurately measure oxygen saturation. A new research, led by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), finds evidence that those inaccuracies could also be associated with disparities in care. Researchers discovered that, in comparison with white patients, Black, Hispanic and Asian patients handled within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) had better discrepancies between SpO2 levels detected using pulse oximeters versus levels detected in blood samples and obtained much less supplemental oxygen than white patients. Results are revealed in JAMA Internal Medicine.