Supplemental oxygen is commonly used in critically-ill patients to prevent hypoxemia (peripheral oxygen saturation [SpO2], < 88%), but excessive use can lead to hyperoxemia (SpO2, > 96% ...

Dr. Margot E. Manning (Medicine): A 32-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of flank pain, fever, and hypoxemia. Two weeks before the current presentation, sharp, intermittent pain ...

The diagnosis of sepsis was made after a SOFA score was calculated for the patient after sufficient clinical and laboratory results had been collected, including PaO2/FiO2 (mmHg), platelet count (×10 ...

The probability of survival went down to a greater degree when a patient had both post-arrest hypoxemia and hypercapnia vs. only one. Perspective from Vijay Sam Nethala, MD Pediatric patients that ...

Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Small Animal Clinic, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany Introduction: Hypoxemia is a common complication during bronchoscopy and ...

Panlobular emphysema (PLE) is a type of emphysema that affects the whole acinus. This is the portion of the lungs that resembles bunches of grapes and where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide ...

Most people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) use an inhaler every day to control shortness of breath and other symptoms of this progressive lung disease. There are many different ...

In Europe, the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the first COVID-19-related death were reported in France on January 24th and February 15th, 2020, respectively. Officially, the first ...