Effect of patient ethnicity on the accuracy of peripheral pulse oximetry in patients with COVID-19 pneumonitis requiring mechanical ventilation

Anaesthesia. 2022 Apr;77(4):489-491. doi: 10.1111/anae.15656. Epub 2022 Jan 10.

Authors

M D Wiles¹, A El-Nayal¹, G Elton¹, M Malaj¹, J Winterbottom¹, C Gillies¹, I K Moppett², K Bauchmuller¹

Affiliations

¹ Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
² University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

PMID: 35001371
DOI: 10.1111/anae.15656

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Ethnicity
Humans
Oximetry
Oxygen
Pneumonia*
Respiration, Artificial

Substances

Oxygen