Ventilation; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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What Is Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure?
There are two types of respiratory failure. The first is hypoia without hyper capnia, or without a raised c o two. This equates to an arterial partial pressure of oxygen of less than eight kelo pascls. And this when it is measured on room air at sea level, this roughly equates to approximately heporiphora oxygen saturations of 90%. Now i can just imagine everybody who's listening to this now is just going to be checking what height they are compared to sea level.
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