Oxygen is essential for adequate cellular functioning and highly specialized systems have developed to maintain a delicate balance during conditions of relatively low to high levels of oxygen ...

1 Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China 2 National Chung Hsing University, ...

An ABG test checks how well your lungs and kidneys work by measuring oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood. This test helps doctors know if your body has an acid-base balance issue and if treatment ...

Sanja Jelic, MD, is board-certified in sleep medicine, critical care medicine, pulmonary disease, and internal medicine. A PaO2 test measures oxygen pressure in arterial blood to help guide treatment ...

At 1 year after participants’ ICU stay for acute respiratory failure, mean DLCO was about 5% lower in those who had an ICU oxygenation target of 60 vs 90 mm Hg. Cognitive impairment levels among ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a rare event occurring in patients with autoimmune Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (aPAP). The accumulation of intra-alveolar material may promote proinflammatory and profibrotic ...

Factors significantly associated with PaO2 levels at high altitudes included the individual’s age, target altitude, and time spent at an altitude of at least 1500 meters. In healthy adults who travel ...

Objective Recent studies have shown that blood urea nitrogen to creatinine (BUN/Cr) ratio might be an effective marker for the prognosis of patients with respiratory diseases. Herein, we aimed to ...

Exposure to hyperoxia, a high arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), may be associated with worse outcomes in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO) support. We examined ...

Oxygen is a vital element for human life, and lack of it leads to death in just a few minutes. A condition where the respiratory system fails in one or both of its gas exchange functions (oxygenation ...

For the MIMIC-III database, we identified unique ICU encounters (icustay_id) with mechanical ventilation status. We next identified the lab event PaO 2 and chart ...

Blood gas analysis allows the assessment of patients’ oxygenation, ventilation, acid-base balance and metabolic status. This article, the sixth in a series on essential critical care skills, outlines ...