25). The new findings are from the largest prospective real-world study to evaluate the relationship between skin pigmentation and pulse oximeter bias in critically ill patients, a topic that ...

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Bright red blood is highly oxygenated, while blue or purplish blood is less ... and the evidence of flawed pulse oximeter readings in people with dark skin dates to the 1980s.