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🚨: Oxygen levels measured by the "gold standard" pulse oximeters were "3X less likely to detect low oxygen levels in Black patients than in white patients."
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.@ushamcfarling writes how using pulse oximeters that can't read oxygen levels on darker skin as accurately could delay potentially life-saving #COVID therapies in Black, Asian & Hispanic patients
via @statnews
statnews.com/2022/05/31/fau…

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🛑This isn't NEW news.
➡️ In Aug '20: @BostonReview wrote "A #PulseOximeter "must “see” your blood by having the light pass through your skin. This should give us pause, since a range of tech-based on color sensing is known to reproduce racial bias."
bostonreview.net/articles/amy-m…

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In Dec '20, Dr. Sjoding from @UMich Medical School said: "I had no understanding that the pulse ox was potentially inaccurate & that I was missing #hypoxemia in a certain minority of patients.”
nytimes.com/2020/12/22/hea…
✒️ @RoniNYTimes
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Drs have said in articles throughout the #pandemic that they weren't aware of this issue DESPITE Drs being aware of this since the '90s.
➡️➡️In 1990, Dr. Jubran & Dr. Tobin reported that pulse oximetry was almost 2½ X less accurate in Black patients.
journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-…
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📢Spread the News to the #Excoded to prevent #AIHarms:
Physicians suggest that people with darker skin:
🛑 Question their pulse oximeter results
🛑 Speak with their physicians ➡️➡️ especially if they feel poorly or see any drop in oxygen levels.

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🎇The next generation is on it!
@RutendoJakach, a @BrownUniversity Ph.D. student in physics, is working to develop new optical techniques that return accurate oxygen saturation levels results regardless of skin tone.
brown.edu/news/2022-04-0…
#InclusiveAI #InclusiveTech
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