Racial minorities receive less oxygen in ICU than white patients because of a flaw in a medical device found in hospitals across the world, a study shows
Black, Asian and Hispanic patients were given 0.2 to 0.4 litres per minute less oxygen than their white counterparts, researchers say.
The pulse oximetre, first developed in the 1970s, clips to a patient's finger and uses red and infrared light absorption to assess hemoglobin. But it is known to generate falsely elevated readings in people with darker skin.in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, Eric Raphael Gottlieb and colleagues looked back at records of 3,069 patients at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who spent at least 12 hours in the hospital's ICU.
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