For Participants

Please see our consent form for more information about risks. Feel free to contact us with any further questions.

Yes! Subjects can return to the lab as many times as they want, as long as the spot on their wrist where the arterial line is inserted is healed (no bruising, etc.). We recommend taking 2 weeks off between studies.

Participants receive $200 for participating in one standard pulse oximeter study. This will be issued to you by check (which can take several weeks to arrive to your provided address).

Please fill out this eligibility survey. If you are eligible, one of our study coordinators will reach out to you so that you can complete a quick screening phone call. This phone call should take no more than 15 minutes.

Once your eligibility is confirmed, participants are placed on our listserv email group. Emails go out when waitlist slots are open and include a link to sign up on our website. Once you click the link, select the best times and dates for you based on the availabilities listed. From here, you must wait for a text message from one of the study coordinators to confirm you are on the schedule!

PLEASE NOTE you may receive a confirmation email saying that you are signed up for a waitlist study slot. HOWEVER, this does not guarantee that you have been chosen to come in. If you do not receive a confirmation text from a study coordinator, please do not show up!

Clinical research is the way doctors and scientists learn about new ways to prevent and treat illness in people. Clinical research is the fastest way to find answers to the many questions about health and disease. It is sometimes called “human research” or a “clinical trial.”
At UCSF most research that needs human volunteers happens in hospitals and clinics. Other types of research studies take place in a doctor’s office, a treatment center, a nursing home, or a community clinic. Some studies involve asking questions in an office, by telephone, or even on the street or in a home.

There are different ways volunteers participate in clinical research. For example:

• Volunteers participate by filling out questionnaires about their health, or they may answer questions about their health in an interview with researchers.
• Volunteers may be asked to donate specimens such as a tube of blood or a tissue sample for a clinical research study.
• Volunteers may participate in clinical research to find out if new treatments, or new ways of using known treatments, are safe and effective to use in people.

The faculty, staff and doctors at UCSF are dedicated to research and are deeply committed to finding new ways to prevent and treat illness and improve the health of patients who come to the University Medical Center for healthcare.

A typical study session lasts around 1 hour.

30-40 minutes of this time includes blood sample data collection and breathing on the circuit, while the remainder of the time is allocated to pre- and post-study tasks (i.e., signing the consent and skin color data collection beforehand, waiting ~10 minutes after study to apply pressure to wrist and ensure subject experiences no adverse effects).

There will be no out-of-pocket expenses for participants. The Hypoxia Lab has received funding from several grants in order to cover research-associated costs.

According to the UCSF Institutional Review Board (IRB) website, an IRB is “a committee — operating under federal regulations, state laws and institutional policy — that reviews research involving human subjects to ensure the ethical and equitable treatment of those subjects.”

All human subject research must be reviewed and approved by the IRB in order to be carried out. All of the Hypoxia Lab studies have received IRB approval prior to being conducted.

According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website, clinical trials are “a type of research that studies new tests and treatments and evaluates their effects on human health outcomes.” This may include the testing of medical interventions such as “drugs, cells and other biological products, surgical procedures, radiological procedures, devices, behavioral treatments and preventive care.

Clinical trials are carefully designed, reviewed and completed, and need to be approved before they can start. People of all ages can take part in clinical trials, including children.”