Clinical analysis reveals occult hypoxemia occurs more often in Black patients and links to higher mortality, highlighting an urgent need for racially inclusive pulse oximeter validation.
Occult hypoxemia is more common in Black patients compared with White patients and is associated with increased mortality, suggesting potentially important outcome implications for undetected hypoxemia. It is imperative to validate pulse oximetry with expanded racial inclusion.
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