The COVID-19 pandemic is a rapidly evolving global health crisis. The condition COVID-19 develops as a result of infection from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and can ...

Pulse oximeters are among the most commonly used medical devices and a standard intraoperative monitor for patients under anesthesia. Studies have provided mixed results on the impact of dark skin ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A major UK study shows that commonly used home pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen levels in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In univariate analysis, a 4% oxygen desaturation index greater than 15 was significantly linked to lung cancer ...

Compared with preoxygenation with an oxygen mask, preoxygenation with noninvasive ventilation led to a lower incidence of hypoxemia during emergency intubation among critically ill adults undergoing ...

DARIEN, IL – A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting is the first to find that episodic hypoxemia and hypoxic burden related to obstructive sleep apnea are associated with the ...

In current clinical care, most critically-ill adults undergoing emergency tracheal intubation receive preoxygenation through an oxygen mask. Administering supplemental oxygen to patients prior to the ...

The spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor fostamatinib (Tavalisse) did not improve outcomes in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 and hypoxemia, a phase III randomized trial showed. Among 400 patients, the ...

Patients who self-report as Black or Hispanic appear more likely than White patients to experience occult hypoxemia during anesthesia, a large retrospective cohort study suggests. "Clinicians expect ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Across several subgroups, preoxygenation with noninvasive ventilation lowered hypoxemia more than an oxygen mask ...