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Nonin introduces NoninConnect Model 3230 wireless finger pulse oximeter for clinicians and patients

Nonin Medical, Inc., the inventor of finger pulse oximetry and a leader in noninvasive medical monitoring, has launched the NoninConnect Model 3230 Bluetooth Smart wireless finger pulse oximeter and ...
CNN

FDA issues draft guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people with darker skin tones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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Oakland clinic gets medical device maker to disclose risk of false blood-oxygen reading

-One of healthcare’s most fundamental tools works less reliably for people with darker skin tones. - An Oakland clinic’s lawsuit is helping to change that in California. The pulse oximeter, a device ...
TCTMD

FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Improving Skin Tone Disparities of Pulse Oximeters

Fingertip pulse oximeters are getting a rethink from the US Food and Drug Administration. In a draft guidance document issued on January 6, the agency outlined the steps it is taking to improve the ...