{"id":9031,"date":"2020-08-13T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9031"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:28:36","slug":"novel-use-of-home-pulse-oximetry-monitoring-in-covid%e2%80%9019-patients-discharged-from-the-emergency-department-identifies-need-for-hospitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/13\/novel-use-of-home-pulse-oximetry-monitoring-in-covid%e2%80%9019-patients-discharged-from-the-emergency-department-identifies-need-for-hospitalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Use of Home Pulse Oximetry Monitoring in COVID\u201019 Patients Discharged\u00a0From\u00a0the Emergency Department Identifies Need for Hospitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shah et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">assessed the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">use of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0home pulse oximetry as a monitoring tool<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">identify the need for hospitalization among 77 patients with initially non-severe COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Chicago<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, including 22<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(29%)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">subsequently required hospitalization<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. They found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">low<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0resting oxygen saturation (SpO<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0&lt;92%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was associated with an increased likelihood of hospitalization (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RR=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7.0, 95%CI 3.4-14.5). Half of patients who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">required<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0hospitaliz<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0had SpO<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0&lt; 92% without worsening symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Shah et al. (July 23, 2020). Novel Use of Home Pulse Oximetry Monitoring in COVID\u201019 Patients Discharged\u00a0From\u00a0the Emergency Department Identifies Need for Hospitalization. Academic Emergency Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/acem.14053\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/acem.14053<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shah et al.\u00a0assessed the\u00a0use of\u00a0home pulse oximetry as a monitoring tool\u00a0to\u00a0identify the need for hospitalization among 77 patients with initially non-severe COVID-19\u00a0in Chicago, including 22\u00a0(29%)\u00a0who\u00a0subsequently required hospitalization. They found that\u00a0low\u00a0resting oxygen saturation (SpO2\u00a0&lt;92%)\u00a0was associated with an increased likelihood of hospitalization (RR=7.0, 95%CI 3.4-14.5). Half of patients who\u00a0required\u00a0hospitalization\u00a0had SpO2\u00a0&lt; 92% without worsening symptoms.\u00a0\u00a0 Shah et al&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/13\/novel-use-of-home-pulse-oximetry-monitoring-in-covid%e2%80%9019-patients-discharged-from-the-emergency-department-identifies-need-for-hospitalization\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}