Open AccessPre-hospital lowest recorded oxygen saturation independently predicts death in patients with COVID-19
Author(s) -
Kirsten Dillon,
C. Christopher Hook,
Zoe Coupland,
Pascale Avery,
Hazel Taylor,
Andy Lockyer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
british paramedic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1478-4726
DOI - 10.29045/14784726.2020.09.5.3.59
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , oxygen therapy , oxygen saturation , hypoxia (environmental) , early warning score , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , oxygen , disease , chemistry , organic chemistry , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) results in hypoxia in around a fifth of adult patients. Severe hypoxia in the absence of visible respiratory distress ('silent hypoxia') is increasingly recognised in these patients. There are no published data evaluating lowest recorded pre-hospital oxygen saturation or pre-hospital National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) as a predictor of outcome in patients with COVID-19.