{"title":"Hypoxemia and oxygen therapy","authors":"A. Ghoshal","doi":"10.4103/jacp.jacp_44_20","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Oxygen is a drug prescribed and administered for specific indications with different pathophysiological mechanism. Oxygen is administered to treat hypoxia not dyspnea. Furthermore, the management of hypoxia in patients with COVID-19 demands separate attention.","PeriodicalId":30411,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians","volume":"8 1","pages":"42 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jacp.jacp_44_20","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Oxygen is a drug prescribed and administered for specific indications with different pathophysiological mechanism. Oxygen is administered to treat hypoxia not dyspnea. Furthermore, the management of hypoxia in patients with COVID-19 demands separate attention.