Silent Hypoxemia in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Cohort of Two Clinical Phenotypes in Critical COVID-19.
Karine AlaméElena Laura LemaitreLaure Abensur VuillaumeMarc NoizetYannick GottwallesTahar ChouihedCharles-Eric LavoignetLise BérardLise MolterStéphane GennaiSarah UgéFrançois LefebvrePascal BilbaultPierrick Le Borgnenull nullPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
Silent hypoxemia is explained by various mechanisms, most physiological and unspecific to COVID-19. Survival was found to be comparable in both phenotypes, with decreased survival in favor of Phenotype II. However, the spectrum of silent to symptomatic hypoxemia appears to include a continuum of disease progression, which can brutally evolve into fatal ARF.