Racial Disparities in Healthcare: Skin Tone and Pulse Oximeters
Scott Lucas, PhD, PE, vice president of device safety at ECRI, talks about how skin tone affects pulse oximeters and racial inequity in healthcare.
Scott Lucas, PhD, PE, vice president of device safety at ECRI, talks about how skin tone affects pulse oximeters and racial inequity in healthcare.
Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients had greater discrepancies in pulse oximeter readings and received less supplemental oxygen than white patients, investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found.
Scott Lucas, PhD, PE, vice president of device safety at ECRI, talks about how skin tone affects pulse oximeters and racial inequity in healthcare.