A patient who is unaware of his breathing difficulties! | IAAC #198 | actifit report| COVID statistics in Oman 🇴🇲

Hi, there! How are you all? Hope that all are fine. I am fine, Alhamdulillah. It is my 198th participation in the I am alive challenge contest. It is also today's actifit report. In the end, you will find COVID19 statistics on Oman.

At around 11 am one Bangladeshi patient entered my chamber. At the first look, he seemed breathless to me. As soon as he sat on the chair, I put a pulse oximeter on his finger, and I was correct. His oxygen saturation was only 62% on room air! I immediately called a nurse and put him on oxygen via a mask. After a few minutes, the saturation raised to 84-85% with 6L/m oxygen.

Then I asked him the problem he was suffering. According to him, he was having giddiness and dizziness for the last two days. He didn't mention that he was having such breathing difficulty. That means he wasn't aware that he was having a low oxygen level and shortness of breath! He denied having any kinds of fever, cold and cough or any other symptoms of COVID19. He didn't have any chest pain, nausea/vomiting, diarrhoea or any other condition. He was a diabetic, and his blood sugar was 273 mg/dl.

With 6L/m oxygen flow, his saturation wasn't going above 90%. I had to refer the patient to the regional hospital. I called the ER doctor. He suggested doing an ECG and escort him to the hospital. In ECG, there is a slight doubt about having a MI in a small portion of the heart wall. It was not a massive or clear-cut MI.

Anyway, I, along with a nurse, shifted the patient to the regional hospital with continuous oxygen via a mask. Before leaving the hospital, I saw that his oxygen saturation fell to 67% without oxygen (in between the transition).

Here are two possibilities:

1. He was suffering from COVID19. But a kind of atypical case. Or
2. He was suffering from a MI. Due to diabetes, he didn't feel pain.

The cases in Oman are decreasing gradually.

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