FDA, skin tone and Pulse oximetry

FDA issues draft guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people with darker skin tones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 devices more reliable and less biased.
FDA releases long-awaited guidance to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for all skin tones
Rather than relying on those testing the devices to judge skin tones, the draft guidance suggests manufacturers should use both the newly developed Monk Skin Tone scale and another scale, called the individual typology angle (ITA), which is based on spectrophotometric measurements.
FDA seeks to boost blood oxygen monitor accuracy across skin tones
The U.S. health regulator on Monday proposed a new guidance for widely used blood oxygen monitoring devices to improve their performance across skin tones amid growing evidence that the current ones are not reliable for patients with darker skin.
FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Improving Skin Tone Disparities of Pulse Oximeters
The agency is proposing that device manufacturers improve their testing to including larger, more diverse sample sizes.
Decades-Old Problem Of Pulse Oximetry Across Skin Tones Targeted By New Draft FDA Guidance
Darker skin tones are typically the result of the presence of more of the pigment melanin, which can interfere with the absorption of light from the pulse oximeter. In practical terms, this means that an oxygen saturation reading for someone with darker skin may read as much higher than it actually is.
New FDA guidance aims to improve accuracy of pulse oximeters for people of color
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance would require manufacturers of pulse oximeters to gather far more clinical data to show the devices accurately work across a range of skin tones. The long-awaited guidance released Monday comes in response to mounting evidence that the devices,
FDA Pushes to Improve Blood Oxygen Monitor Accuracy Across Skin Tones
The FDA's draft recommendations for pulse oximeters aims to include clinical studies involving at least 150 participants with diverse skin tones.
FDA Calls for Better Accuracy of Pulse Oximeters in People of Color
Pulse oximeters -- those tiny devices that measure blood oxygen levels with a quick clip to your finger -- may soon get a major upgrade to ensure they work just as well for people of all skin tones. The U.
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FDA seeks to boost accuracy of blood-oxygen monitors across skin tones
The U.S. health regulator on Monday proposed new guidelines for widely-used blood oxygen monitoring devices to improve their ...