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#Epi 45 - ICU Primary - Bedside preparation Part 2

ICU Primary PrepCast

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Noradrenaline or Vasopressin?

Pulse oximetry is only one component of the determinant of oxygen delivery. So to confirm it, we might do an arterial blood gas and look at the PAO2. And also look at some of the other components of oxygen delivery like looking at their other measures of cardiac output,. hemoglobin levels, and markers of end organ perfusion. That's excellent, mate. The only thing I could catch you on was the bileamet law. So the finger actually expands and contracts because there's pulse going into it. One thing I did notice overnight is that the consultant, the night consultant, has started some days of press and on top of the noradrenaline

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