A woman uses an oximeter to measure her pulse and her peripheral oxygen saturation level. The device is useful in checking for low or declining oxygen saturation, which might indicate onsetting ...

Members of the 359th Aerospace-Medicine Squadron Aerospace Physiology and Operational Flight at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph have a new tool to help aircrews combat the effects of hypoxia, and they ...

A well-known symptom of the coronavirus is low oxygen levels in the body, aka hypoxia, which normally lead to shortness of breath. But some coronavirus patients with hypoxia don't experience this ...

It's still unclear why a private plane veered off course and crashed into a Virginia forest Sunday, but it's possible that a loss of cabin pressure could have rendered the pilot and passengers ...

A human brain slowly deprived of its normal oxygen supply, called hypoxia— especially if it happens to someone in command of an airplane–can create strange behavior the affected aviator may not even ...

Testing the limits of health systems around the world, Covid-19 has served the global citizenry an unexpected dose of societal disarray. In addition to causing the typical respiratory symptoms, it has ...

I could feel my mind going deeper and deeper into a fog. No matter how hard I tried to focus, I couldn’t seem to make sense of the basic problems that I had been tasked with. What is the sum of 15 ...

In hospitals around the world, doctors are shaking their heads in disbelief as they watch Covid-19 patients who should be comatose or “seizing” from hypoxia – a lack of oxygen in the body’s tissues – ...

A well-known symptom of the coronavirus is low oxygen levels in the body, aka hypoxia, which normally lead to shortness of breath. But some coronavirus patients with hypoxia don't experience this ...