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Red reflex variations in black patients

By JOM Staff

12.16.21

In the medical field, it is important to be cognizant of various objective presentations that can be encountered. Different skin tones may result in different test outcomes. A 2020 article in the New England Journal of Medicine [1] reviewed the different outcomes between black and white skin colors when adult inpatient pulse oximetry measurements were compared to their arterial oxygen saturation in arterial blood gas.