{"id":242006,"date":"2026-08-01T08:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/normal-oxygen-levels-can-miss-severe-breathlessness-driven-by-carbon-dioxide"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:37:04","slug":"normal-oxygen-levels-can-miss-severe-breathlessness-driven-by-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/normal-oxygen-levels-can-miss-severe-breathlessness-driven-by-carbon-dioxide","title":{"rendered":"Normal oxygen levels can miss severe breathlessness driven by carbon dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/normal-oxygen-levels-can-miss-severe-breathlessness-driven-by-carbon-dioxide.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study led by biomedical scientist Erica Heinrich at the University of California, Riverside, highlights a critical gap in how clinicians detect and treat breathing distress (dyspnea), particularly in patients on ventilators. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1569904826000315\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Respiratory Physiology &amp; Neurobiology.<\/p>\n<p>Dyspnea, the medical term for breathing discomfort or shortness of breath, is often hard to recognize. According to Heinrich, \u201cit\u2019s often very difficult to tell when a patient is experiencing breathing discomfort,\u201d and current clinical approaches may be overlooking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by biomedical scientist Erica Heinrich at the University of California, Riverside, highlights a critical gap in how clinicians detect and treat breathing distress (dyspnea), particularly in patients on ventilators. The research is published in the journal Respiratory Physiology &amp; Neurobiology. Dyspnea, the medical term for breathing discomfort or shortness of breath, is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}