Exam 9 - O2 Monitoring & Brain Protection Flashcards
Health depend’s on bodies ability to:
- deliver appropriate amount of O2 to each cell
- for each cell to uptake and consume oxygen
Normal oxygen consumption
200-250 ml O2/min
70 kg adult consumes:
10 quintillion molecules of O2 per second
10,000,000,000,000,000,000
Final cause of death
- always ends up being tissue hypoxia
Aerobic
- 1 mole glucose = 36 ATP
- glucose -> 2 pyruvate -> acetyl CoA
Anaerobic
- 1 mole glucose = 2 net ATP
- 97% reduction in energy plus lactic acid waste build up
- lactic acid later sent to liver for conversion
C3H6O3
Lactic acid
C3H5O3 + H
Lactate
CaO2
- Oxygen content of venous and arterial
- 2% dissolved in plasma
- 98% carried by hemoglobin
Arterial O2 content
17-20 ml/100ml blood
Venous O2 content
12-15 ml/100 ml blood
A-V O2 difference
4-6 ml O2/100 ml blood
Biggest factor of O2 content
Hemoglobin
DO2
- oxygen delivery
- available oxygen x delivery rate
- arterial content x CO
Normal O2 delivery
950-1150 ml O2/min
Index: 550-650 ml O2/min/m2
VO2
- Oxygen consumption
- CO x (Ca-Cv)
Ca = arterial O2 content Cv = venous O2 content
Normal O2 consumption
200-250 ml O2/min
Index: 120-160 ml O2/min/m2
RO2
- oxygen reserve
- O2 left AFTER consumption
- built in buffer in time of need
- what is in venous blood
Normal O2 reserve
700-800 ml O2/min
Index: 450 ml O2/min/m2
Anaerobic respiration kicks in at:
< 32% O2
Factors increasing O2 consumption
- Patient conditions
~surgery/fever/agitation/fast breathing/infection/trauma
~biggest are shivering and sepsis….50-100% increase - Medications
~NE/Dopamine/Dobutamine/Epi - Procedures
~dressing change/exam/visitors/turning/nasal intubation/trach suction
Factors decreasing O2 consumption
- Hypothermia (up to 50% at 7 degrees)
- Morphine IV
- Anesthesia
- Assist/control ventilation
- Neuromuscular blocking agents
Conditions that compromise tissue O2
- ischemic hypoxia
- hypoperfusion / peripheral vascular disease / thrombosis - hypoxemic hypoxia
- bad O2 transfer in lungs / CO poison / methemoglobinemia - anemic hypoxia
- less Hgb molecules - toxic hypoxia
- body cells can’t uptake or use O2 / sepsis / cyanide / ethanol - excessive tissue requirements
- demand > supply / fever / SIRS / hypermetabolism / thyroid - impaired O2 unloading
- at cap level / alkalemia / hypocarbia / excessive bank blood
Compensatory mechanism for low O2
- Increase CO - primary
- can get to 15-25 L/min - draw on venous reserve
- extract more O2 - Polycythemia
- increase amount of Hgb and RBC mass….takes weeks
Arterial and mixed venous gases from central lab
- lag time between sample and results
- intermittent
- cannot detect acute/severe hypoxemia