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#350 Rapid Response Series: Acute Hypoxemia

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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What's the Next Step in Treatment for Hypoxema?

The pulsox is a time machine. It'll take a little while from putting oxygen on somebody's face to see an improvement in their saturation. The blood leaving my heart right now is gong to take about 30 seconds to get my finger tip, and even longer if i have reduced cardiac output,. My blood flow is stagnant. So don't expect is to work right away. Omit'll take. I would like to return to the different types of ventilation in a minute. Er oxygen, oxygenating ventilating patients in a minute but as so we're slapping oxygen on the person. Let's saytha, her sats come up to a point we're comfortable with, the

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