Hyperbaric oxygen was safe and effective for treating patients with COVID-19 and severe hypoxemia, according to new findings published in Emergency Medicine Journal.“Our findings suggest that ...

Among the COVID-19 patients, 67% of patients were not escalated to intensive care despite hypoxemia. Of these, 396 survived ICU stay, and 122 died within 60 days of symptom development.

Pediatric patients that received chest compressions for cardiac arrest faced a reduced likelihood for survival to hospital discharge if they had hypoxemia or hypercapnia in the first 24 hours ...

This new understanding of the condition, known as silent hypoxemia or 'happy hypoxia,' could prevent unnecessary intubation and ventilation in patients during the current and expected second wave ...

Night sweats were independently associated with a higher hypoxemia burden in patients diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Brain hypoxia is when the brain isn’t getting enough oxygen. This can occur when someone is drowning, choking, suffocating, or in cardiac arrest.

However, the term "hypoxia," if it means a deficiency of oxygen supply to the body, is quite a different thing from hypoxemia. The term hypoxia should probably not be used so commonly or so glibly.

Face masks have become controversial, resulting in misinformation. The claims that mask wearing limits oxygen and leads to CO2 poisoning aren't true.

A 52-year-old man with back pain was admitted to the hospital with a vertebral mass, multiple lytic bone lesions, and severe hypercalcemia. MRI showed an enhancing, marrow-replacing mass involving ...