A woman uses an oximeter to measure her pulse and her peripheral oxygen saturation level. The device is useful in checking for low or declining oxygen saturation, which might indicate onsetting ...

A strange phenomenon dubbed “happy hypoxia” has baffled doctors treating coronavirus patients who describe themselves as comfortable despite dangerously low oxygen levels that would typically leave ...

Some COVID-19 patients with dangerously low blood-oxygen levels — a condition known as hypoxia — have clinicians stumped by their apparent normal functioning when they seemingly should be laid up. The ...

We have begun the third month of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and science racing to catch up with the disease. As more people come to doctors for help with recovery, doctors are ...

In a recent study published in Respiratory Medicine, researchers reported that silent hypoxia was not unique to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Silent hypoxemia syndrome, well-tolerated hypoxemia ...

While many serious cases of COVID-19 are marked by respiratory distress and dangerously low blood oxygen levels — a condition referred to as hypoxia — the occurrence of “silent or happy hypoxia” ...

A new research study provides possible explanations for COVID-19 patients who present with extremely low, otherwise life-threatening levels of oxygen, but no signs of dyspnea (difficulty breathing).

Testing the limits of health systems around the world, Covid-19 has served the global citizenry an unexpected dose of societal disarray. In addition to causing the typical respiratory symptoms, it has ...

A new COVID-19 side effect is baffling medical experts. According to The Guardian's latest report, a new study has revealed that COVID-19 patients who appear to be not in distress have dangerously low ...

A well-known symptom of the coronavirus is low oxygen levels in the body, aka hypoxia, which normally lead to shortness of breath. But some coronavirus patients with hypoxia don't experience this ...

Shortness of breath, also known as dyspnea, is a patient’s subjective experience. For a long time, we thought that observable measurements, like the degree to which our blood was oxygenated, was ...

In hospitals around the world, doctors are shaking their heads in disbelief as they watch Covid-19 patients who should be comatose or “seizing” from hypoxia – a lack of oxygen in the body’s tissues – ...