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#350 Rapid Response Series: Acute Hypoxemia

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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What Is Hypoena?

Hypoena is low oxygen in the blood. This is the thing that we measure with a pulse ox or with the butkins different from hyposia, which is the state of having low oxygen at the level of the tissues and cells that are actually using it. It's kind of thedifference between what's easy to measure and what actually matters. And it turns out there are ways that you can be a hyposi without being hyposi.

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