UK takes action on SpO2 racial bias - but what about wearables? - Wareable

The issue is called 'occult hypoxia' - a situation when a patient's pulse oximeter reads in the healthy range, but their actual blood oxygen levels are dangerously low.

There has been a raft of litigation in the US - and a new report claims that people with dark skin are 32% more likely to have pulse oximeter readings overestimated.

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