ArticleInternational journal of clinical practice2021
Is pulse oximeter a reliable tool for non-critically ill patients with COVID-19?
Article in International journal of clinical practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Improving fidelity of implementation of self-administered pulse oximetry and remote patient monitoring in Honduras during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Impact of self-administered pulse oximetry among non-hospitalized patients at risk of severe COVID-19 in Honduras: A pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial with temporal clustering.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Prediction of Left Ventricle Pressure Indices Via a Machine Learning Approach Combining ECG, Pulse Oximetry, and Cardiac Sounds: a Preclinical Feasibility Study.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the predictors and frequency of silent hypoxemia in COVID-19 patients and the gap between pulse oximeter and arterial blood gas levels: A cross-sectional study.Health care science · 2024Article
- Recent advances in wearable sensors and data analytics for continuous monitoring and analysis of biomarkers and symptoms related to COVID-19.Biophysics reviews · 2023Review
- Racial and ethnical discrepancy in hypoxemia detection in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.JTCVS open · 2023Article
- Overestimation of Oxygen Saturation Measured by Pulse Oximetry in Hypoxemia. Part 1: Effect of Optical Pathlengths-Ratio Increase.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Development of Low-Cost and Portable Pulse Oximeter Device with Improved Accuracy and Accessibility.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Article
- Is pulse oximeter a reliable tool for non-critically ill patients with COVID-19?International journal of clinical practice · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionGuidelines recommend using a pulse oximeter rather than arterial blood gas (ABG) for COVID-19 patients. However, significant differences can be observed between oxygen saturation measured by pulse oximetry (SpO
methodsWe retrospectively reviewed ABG analyses and SpO
resultsWe categorised total 117 patients into two groups, in whom the difference between SpO
conclusionPulse oximeters may not be sufficient to assess actual oxygen saturation, especially in COVID-19 patients with high ferritin and fibrinogen levels and low lymphocyte count with low SpO
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