Overt and occult hypoxemia in patients hospitalized with novel coronavirus disease 2019.
Shrirang M GadreyPiyus MohantySean P HaugheyBeck A JacobsenKira J DubesterKatherine M WebbRebecca L KowalskiJessica J DreicerRobert T AndrisMatthew T ClarkChristopher C MooreAndre L HolderRishi KamaleswaranSarah Jane RatcliffeJ Randall MoormanPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2022)
The ePFR was a valid measure of overt hypoxemia. In COVID-19, it may outperform multi-organ dysfunction models like NEWS and Sepsis-3. By accounting for biased oximetry as well as clinicians’ real-time responses to it (supplemental oxygen adjustment), ePFRs may enable statistical modelling of racial disparities in outcomes attributable to occult hypoxemia.