[HN Gopher] Dangerously wrong oxygen readings in dark-skinned pa...
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Dangerously wrong oxygen readings in dark-skinned patients spur FDA
scrutiny
Author : EpicBlackCrayon
Score : 17 points
Date : 2022-09-18 20:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| 1123581321 wrote:
| The 3x more likely study was troubling. If I read correctly, 11%
| of darker-skinned patients reading 92-96% were below 88% when
| measured arterially, compared to about 4% of lighter-skinned
| patients. The conventional wisdom I've heard is to subtract 3-5%
| for dark skin when the reading is below 90%, and that wouldn't be
| sufficient.
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