ASA Continues Push to Identify Role of Skin Tone in Pulse Oximeter Performance

Quality & Regulatory Affairs| May 2024 ASA Continues Push to Identify Role of Skin Tone in Pulse Oximeter Performance Matthew Goldan Matthew Goldan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor May 2024, Vol. 88, 13. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001016800.57544.04 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Matthew Goldan; ASA Continues Push to Identify Role of Skin Tone in Pulse Oximeter Performance. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:13 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001016800.57544.04 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: oximetry, pulse, skin For decades, anesthesiologists have relied on pulse oximeters as an essential tool in monitoring patients' blood oxygen saturation levels. In the years after ASA published its Standards for Basic Anesthetic Monitoring in 1986 and helped establish pulse oximeters as a prevalent requirement for anesthesia care, the risk of anesthesia-related morbidity and mortality decreased significantly, a clear credit to the use of monitoring technologies such as pulse oximeters (asamonitor.pub/4a95cZR). Pulse oximeters that meet current performance standards continue to be a vital component of safe anesthesia care. However, studies in recent years have pointed to potential disparities in pulse oximeter performance that have been linked to patient skin tone. A prominent study from Sjoding et al. in 2020 suggested that pulse oximeters could be less likely to successfully detect occult hypoxemia in patients who self-identified with races associated with darker skin tones (N Engl J Med 2020;383:2477-8). This... You do not currently have access to this content.