新型コロナウイルス感染症（以下、新型コロナ）の感染管理や治療で、体内への酸素の取り込みを数値化できるパルスオキシメーターが注目されている。東京都や宮城県など自宅療養者に向けてパルスオキシメーターを配る自治体も増えてきた。だが、この ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, one measurement became more important than almost any other — blood oxygen saturation. It was the one ...

News of US President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 infection spread around the world, particularly when his medical team announced that his blood oxygen levels had dropped twice, requiring oxygen treatments ...

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Kimani Toussant’s wife, an epidemiologist, brought him an article about how pulse oximeters appeared to be less accurate in people with darker skin. The small ...

感染力が強い新型コロナウイルスの「デルタ株」が猛威を振るい、全国的に自宅療養者が増える中、血中酸素飽和度を測る「パルスオキシメーター」の需要が急増している。群馬県内のメーカーは、設備投資して増産を行うが、世界的な半導体不足が生産の ...

Since the start of the pandemic, the popular medical device has been indispensable for measuring oxygen in the blood, but dangerously inaccurate in patients with darker skin. Now the FDA is in the hot ...