Severe Hypoxemia With Normal Heart and Respiratory Rate in Early-stage Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: The "Happy Hypoxemia Phenomenon"
Clin Infect Dis
.
2021 Aug 2;73(3):e856-e858.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab026.
Authors
Izabella Picinin Safe
1
,
Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda
1
2
3
,
Fernando Fonseca Almeida Val
1
,
Vanderson Souza Sampaio
1
4
,
Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar
5
,
Jose Diego Brito-Sousa
2
,
Djane Baía-da-Silva
2
,
Quique Bassat
6
7
8
9
10
,
Giovanni Landoni
11
12
,
Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro
1
2
Affiliations
1
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil.
2
Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
3
Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
4
Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde do Amazonas; Manaus, Brazil.
5
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
6
ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
7
Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
8
ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
9
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
10
Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
11
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
12
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
PMID:
33624795
PMCID:
PMC7953969
DOI:
10.1093/cid/ciab026
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
COVID-19*
Dyspnea
Humans
Hypoxia
Respiratory Rate
SARS-CoV-2