This tutorial discusses the different types of pulse oximeters including optical and reflective techniques and the design considerations taken when building high-end portable bedside monitors or mid ...

While at CES 2016, I got a sneak preview of the MAX30102 optical sensor. I met with Maxim Integrated and saw a really neat optical heart rate IC for the wrist, finger, or even the ear. Any reasonably ...

Background and Aims: To be useful in the delivery room, pulse oximeters must provide clinicians with accurate data in the first minutes after birth. This study aimed to identify the sensor application ...

The global pulse oximeter market size was valued at USD 3.56 billion in 2024 and is predicted to hit around USD 6.76 billion by 2034, rising at a 6.64% CAGR, a study published by Towards Healthcare a ...

We’re always looking for interesting biohacks here on Hackaday, and this new research article describing a calibrated pulse oximeter for different skin tones really caught our attention. Their idea ...

In 1995 Nonin Medical revolutionized pulse oximetry with the Onyx. Hundreds of thousands of people trust Onyx, the first self-contained digital fingertip pulse oximeter. Incorporating the electronics ...

Digital health and fitness company WHOOP has released the latest version of its wearable, the WHOOP 4.0. The new wearable includes haptic alerts that use gentle vibrations to awaken the wearer based ...

Taiwan Biophotonic Co., a leading provider of non-invasive vital signs sensing solutions, today announced the release of its DOE reflective sensor for fingerless wrist-worn pulse oximeters, which ...

As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Owais Durrani sees this issue regularly first-hand: When he clamps a pulse oximeter onto a patient's fingertip to measure their blood oxygen levels, the small ...

Pulse oximeters measure blood oxygen level — how much oxygen is present in your blood and how well it is transported to the extremities (blood pressure monitors are different). Medical pulse oximeters ...

How fast does your heart beat? It’s a tough question to answer, because our heart rate changes all the time depending on what we’re doing and how our body is behaving. However, [Ludwin] noted that ...