A more holistic view could contribute to our understanding of ‘silent hypoxaemia’ in Covid‐19 patients

The article written by Simonson et al. (2021), ‘Silent hypoxaemia in COVID-19 patients’, provides a comprehensive and interesting review on how hypoxaemia is related to dyspnoea. However, we would like to address some points that need further clarification. Firstly, the terms ‘happy hypoxia’ and ‘silent hypoxia’ are based on the clinician's perception of an expected response related to levels of oxygen saturation (; Tobin et al. 2020), which...