FDA issues draft guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people with darker skin tones
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 these devices more reliable and less biased.
FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Improving Skin Tone Disparities of Pulse Oximeters
The agency is proposing that device manufacturers improve their testing to including larger, more diverse sample sizes.
FDA releases long-awaited guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for all skin tones
Rather than relying on those testing the devices to judge skin tones, the draft guidance suggests manufacturers should use both the newly developed Monk Skin Tone scale and another scale, called the individual typology angle (ITA), which is based on spectrophotometric measurements.
New FDA guidance aims to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people of color
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance would require manufacturers of pulse oximeters to gather far more clinical data to show the devices accurately work across a range of skin tones. The long-awaited guidance released Monday comes in response to mounting evidence that the devices,
FDA recommends more robust testing of pulse oximeters to avoid bias in people with dark skin tone
New draft guidelines would increase the number of people with darker skin who should be included in clinical trials of the devices.
FDA issues much-anticipated guidance on pulse oximeters
The FDA released the guidance in response to concerns that the devices are less accurate in people with darker skin pigmentation.
FDA calling on pulse oximeter makers to make life-saving changes to devices
Pulse oximeters help doctors evaluate a person's pulse rate and the oxygen saturation of your blood. The FDA is proposing changes to make them more accurate.
FDA Pushes to Improve Blood Oxygen Monitor Accuracy Across Skin Tones
The FDA's draft recommendations for pulse oximeters aims to include clinical studies involving at least 150 participants with diverse skin tones.
FDA Proposes Updated Recommendations to Help Improve Performance of Pulse Oximeters Across Skin Tones
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published new draft guidance aimed at helping improve the accuracy and performance of pulse oximeters – important devices for patient care that are used to estimate the amount of oxygen carried in the blood – across the range of skin pigmentation.
FDA Calls for Better Accuracy of Pulse Oximeters in People of Color
Pulse oximeters -- those tiny devices that measure blood oxygen levels with a quick clip to your finger -- may soon get a major upgrade to ensure they work just as well for people of all skin tones. The U.
Pulse oximeters may misread oxygen levels in people of color. The FDA wants to change that
Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their products work for patients of color.
FDA recommends fixing racial disparities in pulse oximeter readings
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a long-awaited plan aimed at improving how pulse oximeters work on people ...
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Diversity Reporting Improved in Pulse Oximetry Testing After FDA Guidance
There was "low but improving uptake" of reporting about the diversity of participants in summary documents for FDA-cleared ...
FDA seeks to boost accuracy of blood-oxygen monitors across skin tones
The U.S. health regulator on Monday proposed new guidelines for widely-used blood oxygen monitoring devices to improve their ...