Pulse Oximeter Performance, Racial Inequity, and the Work Ahead

Olubunmi E Okunlola; Michael S Lipnick; Paul B Batchelder; Michael Bernstein; John R Feiner; Philip E Bickler

doi:10.4187/respcare.09795

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Pulse Oximeter Performance, Racial Inequity, and the Work Ahead

Olubunmi E Okunlola, Michael S Lipnick, Paul B Batchelder, Michael Bernstein, John R Feiner and Philip E Bickler

Respiratory Care February 2022, 67 (2) 252-257; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.09795

Olubunmi E Okunlola

Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco; and Hypoxia Research Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco.

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Michael S Lipnick

Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco; Hypoxia Research Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco; and Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco.

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For correspondence: [email protected]

Paul B Batchelder

Clinimark, Louisville, Colorado.

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Michael Bernstein

Hypoxia Research Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco; and Physio Monitor, LLC, San Ramon, California.

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John R Feiner

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Philip E Bickler

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A: Data from recent pulse oximeter performance studies at Clinimark laboratories and represents simultaneously collected pulse oximeter readings and CO-oximeter arterial blood analysis. B: Data from Sjoding et al.¹ The red rectangle is the zone of “occult hypoxia” as described in the Sjoding letter. Data from the controlled laboratory studies show no points in this area. From Reference 1, with permission.

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