Wrist pulse oximeters can look similar, making it hard to decide which one to buy. This in-depth guide covers everything you need to know to find your best fit.

That’s where pulse oximeters come in. These small devices measure your heart rate and SpO₂. They give you another way to understand how your body responds during exercise and recovery. Also, they may ...

The Food and Drug Administration should move more quickly to ensure pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices used to measure blood oxygen — work well in all patients, should better inform clinicians ...

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 ...

Attorneys general in Wisconsin and other states are urging the federal Food and Drug Administration to address a flaw in devices used to measure a person's blood oxygen level that tend to give faulty ...

PITTSBURGH, May 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I have been a nurse for 30 years. I thought there could be a way to prevent the spread of germs and viruses when using pulse oximeters," said an inventor from ...

Pulse oximeters were a critical part of life-saving care during the COVID-19 pandemic, shaping treatment by measuring oxygen levels in the blood. The devices, which became common in the 1980s, have ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today FDA clearance of MightySat ® Medical, making it the first and only FDA-cleared medical fingertip pulse oximeter available ...

Pulse oximeters—one of the most common medical devices used in global health care—can provide significantly overestimated oxygen saturation readings in people with darker skin tones, according to the ...

In the EXAKT study from the U.K., the home-use pulse oximeters assessed all gave higher oxygen saturation (SpO2) readings for patients with darker skin tones than for patients with lighter skin tones.