Apple's new Apple Watch Series 6 goes all-in on health care, including a new feature to measure blood oxygen level-- a vital sign that's been helpful monitoring COVID-19, among other things. Other ...

Pulse oximetry is a ubiquitous non-invasive medical sensing method for measuring pulse rate and arterial blood oxygenation. Conventional pulse oximeters use expensive optoelectronic components that ...

This tutorial discusses the different types of pulse oximeters including optical and reflective techniques and the design considerations taken when building high-end portable bedside monitors or mid ...

Background and Aims: To be useful in the delivery room, pulse oximeters must provide clinicians with accurate data in the first minutes after birth. This study aimed to identify the sensor application ...

In this project, I built a wearable health monitoring tag that you can actually chat with on Telegram. Using a pulse oximeter ...

Digital health and fitness company WHOOP has released the latest version of its wearable, the WHOOP 4.0. The new wearable includes haptic alerts that use gentle vibrations to awaken the wearer based ...

Oxygen is absorbed by a protein in your blood called hemoglobin. When you breathe, your lungs load up blood cells with oxygen, then the pumping of your heart circulates the oxygen-rich blood through ...

Pulse oximeters measure blood oxygen level — how much oxygen is present in your blood and how well it is transported to the extremities (blood pressure monitors are different). Medical pulse oximeters ...

(CNN)-- Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger -- one of the many devices he uses to ...