Aligarh : Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) faculty member from the Department of Anaesthesionogy and ICU in-charge of the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), Prof S Moied Ahmed demonstrated cricothyrotomy methods to establish airway during
between surviving covid i9 or not? yes, i think this is a critically important question. you know, we use these devices like a pulse oximeter to make important medical decisions how much oxygen a patient needs, when they are hospitalised, whether they get admitted or not, so in the immediate short term we re trying to spread the word and increase awareness that while this device is accurate it can have imperfections and particularly inaccuracies in darker pigmented patients, so the first step is to be aware this device has limitations and be careful about using this device without considering other information when you re caring for patients and if you really need to know, you should consider doing something else like this arterial blood gas, so i think that is an immediate short term fix but i do think the longer term fix is to redesign the devices to make sure that these devices work the same in all patients.
fester, bias in medical technologies. thank you very muc joining fester, thank you very much for joining us. just tell it a little bit about your research and why he conducted it. it is bit about your research and why he conducted it conducted it. it is a pleasure to be here. conducted it. it is a pleasure to be here- this conducted it. it is a pleasure to be here. this research conducted it. it is a pleasure to be here. this research came - conducted it. it is a pleasure to be here. this research came from - conducted it. it is a pleasure to bej here. this research came from the covid i9 pandemic. i am a practising pulmonary physician and during a pandemic when caring for certain patients we notice the pulse oximeter seem to be less accurate when we looked at the more accurate lavatory test called arterial blood gas that we don t perform as often. we saw that there seem to be this discrepancy and we didn t quite understand why so we looked at, you know, skin tone is a factor and
the short term question here is whether we can stay free from further covid restrictions. dan johnson, bbc news. let s stay with that concern over pulse oximeters, mentioned in danjohson s report. dr michael sjoding is from the university of michigan. he led research on racial bias in pulse oximetry measurement last year, finding a critical need to understand and correct racial bias in medical technologies. he told me more about his findings. this research came from the covid pandemic. i am a practising pulmonary physician and during the pandemic when caring for certain patients we noticed the pulse oximeter seemed to be less accurate when we looked at a more accurate labatory test called arterial blood gas that we don t perform as often. we saw that there seemed to be this discrepancy and we didn t quite understand why so we looked at, you know, skin tone as a factor and we looked at black patients compared to white patients and we found that there
July 24, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh chief minister Friday announced to shut down dining at restaurants and marriage halls, close shrines, recreational spots and educational institutions, except those where examinations are taking place and reduced business timings of markets/shops from 6am to 6pm from Monday.
CM Murad Ali Shah took the decision following the recommendations from Provincial Taskforce on Covid-19. The situation prompted the provincial government to send an SOS signal to the National Command and Operation Center for more oxygen cylinders and related equipment to treat the rising number of critical patients as oxygen crises intensified in Karachi hospitals.
Presiding over the meeting of Provincial Taskforce on Covid-19, the chief minister said that pharmacies and bakeries would operate as usual, but there would be two closed days: Friday and Sunday, while the government and private offices would function with 50 percent staff attendance, except the departments/organizat