Silent Hypoxia & it's role in COVID-19 detection | Apollo Hospitals

Silent hypoxia is when a pulse oximetry check on a patient who does not appear to be short of breath, results in oximetry finding lower than a physician would expect.

The term silent comes from the fact that the patient does not appear to be short of breath. They are not gasping, they do not have an increase in their respiratory rate, and they are not complaining of feeling air hunger or looking uncomfortable.

Most individuals, when their oxygen levels start to drop into the eighties or lower, will feel air hunger and start to breathe more rapidly and feel uncomfortable.

Breathing tends to be a very natural, easy thing for us to do. But when the oxygen level drops to that level, most individuals will have a sense of what is called dyspnea, or shortness of breath.

The reasons we become short of breath can include both the low oxygen level, as well as a high carbon dioxide level.

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