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January 31, 2022Critical Care Medicine133 citationsOpen Access

Disparities in Hypoxemia Detection by Pulse Oximetry Across Self-Identified Racial Groups and Associations With Clinical Outcomes*

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NHNicole HenryAHAndrew C. HansonPSPhillip J. Schulte

Key Points

  • To examine racial disparities in the detection of occult hypoxemia via pulse oximetry and evaluate its relationship with adverse clinical outcomes.
  • Assessed pulse oximetry accuracy and rates of occult hypoxemia across self-identified racial groups.
  • Evaluated the association between undetected hypoxemia and patient mortality.
  • Occult hypoxemia occurs at higher rates in Black patients compared with White patients.
  • Undetected hypoxemia is significantly associated with increased patient mortality.

Abstract

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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Henry et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8975c7392c8ce61beef2chttps://doi.org/10.1097/ccm.0000000000005394
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