Article ; Online: Respiratory Drive, Dyspnea, and Silent Hypoxemia: A Physiological Review in the Context of COVID-19.
2022 Volume 67, Issue 10, Page(s) 1343–1360
Abstract: Infection with SARS-CoV-2 in select individuals results in viral sepsis, pneumonia, and hypoxemic respiratory failure, collectively known as COVID-19. In the early months of the pandemic, the combination of novel disease presentation, enormous surges of ... ...
Abstract | Infection with SARS-CoV-2 in select individuals results in viral sepsis, pneumonia, and hypoxemic respiratory failure, collectively known as COVID-19. In the early months of the pandemic, the combination of novel disease presentation, enormous surges of critically ill patients, and severity of illness lent to early observations and pronouncements regarding COVID-19 that could not be scientifically validated owing to crisis circumstances. One of these was a phenomenon referred to as "happy hypoxia." Widely discussed in the lay press, it was thought to represent a novel and perplexing phenomenon: severe hypoxemia coupled with the absence of respiratory distress and dyspnea. Silent hypoxemia is the preferred term describing an apparent lack of distress in the presence of hypoxemia. However, the phenomenon is well known among respiratory physiologists as hypoxic ventilatory decline. Silent hypoxemia can be explained by physiologic mechanisms governing the control of breathing, breathing perception, and cardiovascular compensation. This narrative review examines silent hypoxemia during COVID-19 as well as hypotheses that viral infection of the central and peripheral nervous system may be implicated. Moreover, the credulous embrace of happy hypoxia and the novel hypotheses proposed to explain it has exposed significant misunderstandings among clinicians regarding the physiologic mechanisms governing both the control of breathing and the modulation of breathing sensations. Therefore, a substantial focus of this paper is to provide an in-depth review of these topics. |
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MeSH term(s) | COVID-19/complications ; Dyspnea/etiology ; Humans ; Hypoxia/epidemiology ; Hypoxia/etiology ; Pandemics ; SARS-CoV-2 |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2022-05-02 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
ZDB-ID | 603252-7 |
ISSN | 1943-3654 ; 0098-9142 ; 0020-1324 |
ISSN (online) | 1943-3654 |
ISSN | 0098-9142 ; 0020-1324 |
DOI | 10.4187/respcare.10075 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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