Posted on 03/02/2021 10:11:15 AM PST by Twotone
(WBMA) – A study found racial bias in a common lifesaving medical detection device, according to the FDA.
The device is called a pulse oximeter and it's used to make important medical decisions for patients, especially in the pandemic.
It is an electronic device that measures the saturation of oxygen carried in your red blood cells.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows the use of that type of device failed at getting a proper blood oxygen reading in more Black patients than white patients.
According to the FDA, it’s likely the device is less accurate in people with “dark skin pigmentation”.
"I don't think there was a dramatic difference in how the COVID disease process could have been managed over the year," Dr. Michael Luther said. "But in individual circumstances, no doubt someone was told that their oxygen was 94 and it was really 87 and it may have delayed care in those individual cases."
Doctor Luther is with Grandview’s primary care facility in Homewood and said adjustments will have to be made going forward, to ensure extra attention is paid to oxygen levels in Black patients.
“We would kind of subjectively be a little more skeptical if someone who identifies as Black said that their home reading is 93%. We might just tell ourselves, 'you know there is a three times higher chance that, that’s not right compared to someone who identifies as white'. And then we would say, ok be more cautious, have a different threshold to call me back again,” Dr. Luther said.
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Hospitals have been using these devices for many many years. Nobody discovered this error before?
This has nothing to do with skin color and more to do with Type II diabetes, especially undiagnosed or poorly managed.
Must be designed like that. Systemically.
“someone who identifies as Black”? So it’s not about race, it’s about how you FEEL? I wonder how Talcum X and Rachael Dolezal are affected.
Yes - that proves racial bias. Not because it gives different readings but because I’m 99% sure the developers were PREVENTED from pointing out that skin color would affect results because saying so - last year - was RACISS.
The device in and of itself is not racist - anymore than cameras are racist for over exposing backgrounds when photographing black people!
Clown world.
I guess this falls under the maxim, if you look for something hard enough, you’ll find it.
Marsha Marsha Marsha
Racist Racist Racist
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You’d think by now that race would be a factor in many health chart range standards.
These crazies will eventually call God a racist for making blacks ‘black’.
How do you deal with stupidity & insanity like this?
That little plastic clothespin they put on your finger?
That’s racist?
Note to self: Be sure to wash hands after playing with coal before going to doctor.
This phrase is a great warning of the arrival of BS. The only thing that's a greater warning is a lifted tail and a big cow fart.
But more seriously, this is a problem. My company was using an infrared proximity sensor behind glass as a button on a sealed piece of equipment. We had to be careful to have it sensitive enough to detect black people's fingers.
Without the ability to cry racism, White Liberals would have
one less reason to exist.
So what would they have it do?
Give less accuracy if it detects the patient is white?
The African plague will do greater harm to the American Republic than the Covid 19 plague
Poor Michael Jackson never had a chance...snicker snicker.
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