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How I made a pulse oximeter with a Raspberry Pi Pico to keep tabs on my heart rate

Keeping track of your basic vital statistics used to involve a trip to the doctor's office where you would be subjected to expensive equipment that you couldn’t hope to understand. But now, with the ...
Business Wire

Masimo Announces the First FDA-cleared “Over-the-Counter” Fingertip Pulse Oximeter

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 ...
News Medical

Remote monitoring for COVID-19 patients shows no benefit from pulse oximetry

Using a pulse oximeter to measure oxygen levels is no better than just regularly asking patients with COVID-19 if they are short of breath, according to new research at the Perelman School of Medicine ...
Arizona Daily Star

FDA considers updating pulse oximeter guidelines to boost accuracy

I did that before, but now I’m going to be a little more hyper alert.”for Banner Health, puts her finger in a pulse oximeter machine on March 14. Multiple studies have shown that pulse oximeters may ...