Anything below that requires medical consultation. For patients with COPD or type-2 respiratory failure, carbon dioxide ...

Your fitness tracker is capable of monitoring all kinds of data. The problem is keeping track of what it all means. SpO2 is just one example of a lesser-understood metric that can provide insight into ...

The bioengineer Takuo Aoyagi died in Tokyo in April, around the same time that people began clamouring to panic buy his 1970s invention, the pulse oximeter. Blood oxygen saturation, which pulse ...

Background: High blood oxygen tensions and oxygen tension variability have been linked to morbidity in preterm infants. Oxygen saturation (SpO2) monitoring is commonly used to guide oxygen therapy but ...

Proper blood circulation is considered essential for maintaining a healthy body and ensuring that all organs function correctly. Hemoglobin, a protein present in the blood, continuously delivers ...

A new firmware update is now rolling out to Huawei's Watch GT 2 that brings the SpO2 monitoring feature. With this feature, the device now gains parity with the recently launched GT 2e. Huawei ...

Fitbit launched its first proper smartwatch in 2017. The Ionic, along with most of its recent wearables, features a dormant SpO2 sensor that can be used for blood oxygen tracking. More users are now ...

A major UK study shows that commonly used home pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin, increasing the risk of undetected hypoxemia and raising urgent questions about ...

SpO2 data is hard to interpret Still requires daily charge with sleep tracking and always on display The Apple Watch Series 6 feels like it has perfected many of the features I liked about its ...