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Oximetry at home, Rapid lateral flow tests for Covid
Inside Health
Polsoximeters - Should I Buy a Pulse Oximeter?
Pulse oximeters work by shining light through your finger tips. Do they work for people of all different skin colours? That's the great question. There was a study using oximeters in patients in the intens if cani, and what they found was the early signs that there may be a discrepancy with what is picked up with black skin versus white skin. We haven't corroborated this with our own data at scale in the n h s but we are urgently studying this. What we have found right from the start of this disease is that the base line levils are really important. So no matter what your skin color, your starting oxygen level is a guide to how you are normally
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