Anaesthesia, resuscitation, and intensive therapy
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Anaesth Resusc Intensive Ther
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Anaesth Resusc Intensive Ther · Jan 1975
Assessment of arterial blood oxygenation in various states of acute respiratory failure.
The study contains an analysis of the clinical course of 48 patients with acute respiratory failure. The degree of arterial hypoxaemia and respiratory failure were correlated with the value of true pulmonary shunt of non-oxygenated blood. ⋯ The value of 47% of shunt was accepted as that with is incompatible with survival. It was demonstrated that determinations of pulmonary shunt are superior to A-aP02 measurements in assessment of the ventilatory function of the lungs.