The Role of PAO2 in Oxygen Physiology

A non-English speaking transplant donor of a kidney who was given a PCA button with some fentanyl hooked up but just was not explained how to use it in his language. He hyperventilated so profoundly that I attended an emergency response for him for hypokalsemic tetany from the alkalosis. The take home is you must as an intensivist understand that there is going to be a left shift of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve.