학술논문
Silent Hypoxia in Coronavirus disease-2019: Is it more dangerous? -A retrospective cohort study
Document Type
article
Author
Prashant Sirohiya; Arunmozhimaran Elavarasi; Hari Krishna Raju Sagiraju; Madhusmita Baruah; Nishkarsh Gupta; Rohit Kumar Garg; Saurav Sekhar Paul; Brajesh Kumar Ratre; Ram Singh; Balbir Kumar; Saurabh Vig; Anuja Pandit; Abhishek Kumar; Rakesh Garg; Ved Prakash Meena; Saurabh Mittal; Saurabh Pahuja; Nupur Das; Tanima Dwivedi; Ritu Gupta; Sunil Kumar; Manisha Pandey; Abhinav Mishra; Karanvir Singh Matharoo; Anant Mohan; Randeep Guleria; Sushma Bhatnagar
Source
Lung India, Vol 39, Iss 3, Pp 247-253 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
0970-2113
0974-598X
0974-598X
Abstract
Background: Hypoxia in patients with COVID-19 is one of the strongest predictors of mortality. Silent hypoxia is characterised by the presence of hypoxia without dyspnoea. Silent hypoxia has been shown to affect the outcome in previous studies. Methods: This was a retrospective study of a cohort of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection who were hypoxic at presentation. Clinical, laboratory and treatment parameters in patients with silent hypoxia and dyspnoeic hypoxia were compared. Multivariate logistic regression models were fitted to identify the factors predicting mortality. Results: Among 2080 patients with COVID-19 admitted to our hospital, 811 patients were hypoxic with SpO2