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#350 Rapid Response Series: Acute Hypoxemia

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Medications Impair Hypoxic Baso Constriction

Our lungs are reall smart. They're really good at sending blood to the places where there is oxygen. You have something called hypoxic vaso constriction, which is where the blood vessels constrict. If there's an alviole that's not well ventilated it can cause a shunt or fetumis match.

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