Open AccessOxygen: Friend or foe in the COVID‐19 battle
Author(s) -
Chudasama Kishan,
Sangey Esmail
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.5254
Subject(s) - hypoxemia , medicine , covid-19 , hypoxia (environmental) , supplemental oxygen , oxygen therapy , oxygen , intensive care medicine , battle , anesthesia , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , disease , outbreak , organic chemistry , chemistry , history , archaeology
Hypoxia and hypoxemia are two different entities. Correcting hypoxemia without hypoxia tends to have disastrous effects and delays lung healing. In this study, we share a case of an elderly man with moderate COVID‐19 who never received any form of supplemental oxygen as compared to other patients with similar presentation.