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January 2007
Emergency assessment of oxygenation
Hypoxia and hypoxemia describe states of oxygen
deficiency: hypoxia is deficiency in oxygenation at tissue or
cellular level whilst hypoxemia is a suboptimal normal partial
pressure of oxygen. Hypoxia and hypoxemia are interrelated, as
untreated hypoxemia will ultimately result in hypoxia.
It should
also be noted...
Blood gases/acid-base
Bilirubin