The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast #350 Rapid Response Series: Acute Hypoxemia
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Career Mantra For Focused Work
- Nick Mark summarized career advice as: 'Say no, quit stuff, fail fast.'
- He recommends avoiding tasks that don't bring joy or use your strengths.
Hypoxemia Versus Hypoxia
- Hypoxemia is low oxygen in the blood and differs from hypoxia, which is low tissue oxygen.
- Pulse oximetry measures saturation while blood gas measures dissolved PaO2, giving different but complementary data.
Oxygen Content And Delivery Matter
- Oxygen content depends mainly on hemoglobin and saturation, not just saturation alone.
- Oxygen delivery equals content times cardiac output, so anemia or low output can cause tissue hypoxia despite normal sats.