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'Silent Hypoxia' May Be Killing COVID-19 Patients
"The concern with this presentation, called 'silent hypoxia,' is that patients are showing up to the hospital in worse health than they realize." -- Stephanie Pappas
It is interesting to note from this article that "low oxygen levels" WITHOUT any exterior symptoms was discovered very early in the Covid-19 game:
'Silent hypoxia' may be killing COVID-19 patients. But there's hope.
April 23, 2020
By Stephanie Pappas
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As doctors see more and more COVID-19 patients, they are noticing an odd trend: Patients whose blood oxygen saturation levels are exceedingly low but who are hardly gasping for breath.
These patients are quite sick, but their disease does not present like typical acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a type of lung failure known from the 2003 outbreak of the SARS coronavirus and other respiratory diseases. Their lungs are clearly not effectively oxygenating the blood, but these patients are alert and feeling relatively well, even as doctors debate whether to intubate them by placing a breathing tube down the throat.
The concern with this presentation, called "silent hypoxia," is that patients are showing up to the hospital in worse health than they realize. But there might be a way to prevent that, according to a New York Times Op-Ed by emergency department physician Richard Levitan. If sick patients were given oxygen-monitoring devices called pulse oximeters to monitor their symptoms at home, they might be able to seek medical treatment sooner, and ultimately avoid the most invasive treatments.
As the article explains:
"'This is not a new phenomenon,' said Dr. Marc Moss, the division head of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
"There are other conditions in which patients are extremely low on oxygen but don't feel any sense of suffocation or lack of air, Moss told Live Science.
"However, the increased understanding that people with COVID-19 may show up with these atypical coronavirus symptoms is changing the way doctors treat them.
"Normal blood-oxygen levels are around 97%, Moss said, and it becomes worrisome when the numbers drop below 90%. At levels below 90%, the brain may not get sufficient oxygen, and patients might start experiencing confusion, lethargy or other mental disruptions. As levels drop into the low 80s or below, the danger of damage to vital organs rises.
"However, patients may not feel in as dire straits as they are. A lot of coronavirus patients show up at the hospital with oxygen saturations in the low 80s but look fairly comfortable and alert, said Dr. Astha Chichra, a critical care physician at Yale School of Medicine. They might be slightly short of breath, but not in proportion to the lack of oxygen they're receiving."
Masks Make Low Oxygen Levels Worse
As the experts interviewed for the article admit:
"There are three major reasons people feel a sense of dyspnea, or labored breathing, Moss said. One is something obstructing the airway, which is not an issue in COVID-19."
Did you catch the "something obstructing the airway, which is not an issue in COVID-19" comment?
Really?
How about 'obstructing the airway' by covering the mouth and nose with a mask (or even worse, a respirator) for hours on end?
So, it's not really a stretch to conclude that anyone with "silent hypoxia" going on in an otherwise 'asymptomatic' COVID-19 infection could easily kill themselves by wearing a mask. How many already have?
Do you still think masks are 'harmless?'
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