In medicine, hypoxia is a condition in which the human body tissues are not oxygenated sufficiently to maintain adequate homeostasis, resulting from inadequate oxygen delivery to the tissues due to ...

The hotline rang just past 11:00 PM. 'This is from a nursing facility. An 82-year-old male, fever and lethargy... and we can't get a blood pressure reading.' Cannot get a blood pressure reading. I ...

Sanja Jelic, MD, is board-certified in sleep medicine, critical care medicine, pulmonary disease, and internal medicine. Sleep apnea can cause low blood oxygen during sleep. Low oxygen levels from ...

3 Centre for Respiratory Health, School of Medicine & Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Introduction Pleural effusion is a common clinical problem that ...

Some habits can make your chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worse. Find out which habits to avoid and what to do ...

Voice changes, which can be recorded and measured with a mobile phone app, can signal a flare-up in symptoms for people with ...

Definitions of hypoxaemia, hypoxia, type 1 respiratory failure and hyperoxaemia Definition of hypercapnia and type 2 respiratory failure Definition of acidosis (respiratory acidosis and metabolic ...

Sanja Jelic, MD, is board-certified in sleep medicine, critical care medicine, pulmonary disease, and internal medicine. Hypercapnia happens when you have too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in your blood.

Correspondence to Dr YanFei Guo, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine;National Center of Gerontology;Institute of Geriatric Medicine,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing ...

William Ottestad, consultant and specialist in anaesthesiology. The author has completed the ICMJE form and declares no conflicts of interest. Some COVID-19 patients deteriorate rapidly and seemingly ...

Objective High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy is increasingly used in preterm infants despite a paucity of physiological studies. We aimed to investigate the effects of HFNC on respiratory ...

We excluded diseases that directly or indirectly lead to abnormal release of cTnT, including acute coronary syndrome (ACS), cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, valvular heart disease, endocarditis, ...