Oxygen saturation

Scalpel. Doctor, patient’s O2 sat. is 70 percent and dropping fast! Place an oxygen mask on her. Kelly. I need a size [insert] chest tube. Doctor, her oxygen saturation is coming back up slowly. Good, keep watching it. Tube is in; get X-ray in here to check for placement. The patient’s oxygen saturation is now in the high 90s. Alright, lower her oxygen level and see how she does. All vitals look good, patient is doing well at two liters of oxygen, and placement is good. I am going to go and talk to the family; I will be back to check in on her in just a few minutes to make sure she is doing fine before sending her to the floor. In less than a minute a routine thoracostomy turned into an emergency. The patient, a woman in her 50s, had been having issues with…

The majority of units (96\%) reported having an alarm target on their oxygen saturation monitor. Thirty-eight respondents (73\%) worked in units that did not have an oxygen weaning protocol for mechanically ventilated patients. The units with admissions more than 1500 were less likely to have a weaning protocol compared to those between 500 and 1500 admissions.(Figure 3.5)\\ \begin{minipage}{\columnwidth} \centering \includegraphics [width=1.1\textwidth]{figures/volumevsprotocol.png}…

incurred by those infected with pneumonia. [3] The impact of the disease on the role of paramedics and the ambulance service within the health system are quite substantial. Correctly identifying the disease and effectively providing treatment to patients can keep a lot of people from being admitted into hospital, in turn resulting in more space and resources in our health care and hospital systems. Aetiology and Pathophysiology of Case Presentation As stated earlier, pneumonia is a lower…

Flaws The area in which the data was collected varied going by each result. The historical data (May 2012 to Sep 2015) was all measured from different parts of the creek. This means that the results may not be accurate to each other, or to the overall results. For example, in May 2013 the percentage of dissolved oxygen was very low at 29% saturation. The reason for this is the exceptionally high flow rate and cloud cover. This indicates that the day in which the data was collected the water was…

Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive procedure that is used to measure the oxygen saturation level of the newborn (Pillitteri & Pillitteri, 2013). The device used in pulse oximetry readings contains two diodes that release equal concentrations of red and infrared light concurrently into the tissue bed the electrode is secured (WHO, 2011). The reading that is displayed is the proportion of reduced hemoglobin and oxygenated blood that is calculated and displayed indicating the oxygen concentration…

Technology in health care has become an active participant in collecting, recording, or transmitting clinical data. There are various types of medical devices and technology used such as cardiovascular (tele) monitors, oxygen saturation monitors, intravenous pumps, feeding pumps, EKGs, ventilators, bed/chair alarms, security alarms and call bells. The purpose of medical-technical equipment is to support nursing care in detecting, prevent, monitor, treat, compensate for injury and disability or…

This woman is absolutely amazing. I personally consider myself lucky to have meet such a person. Liz explained that all of the nurses in the PACU must have critical care experience. Each nurse has come to the PACU, with experience from an intensive care unit or an emergency department. Liz told us that the first thing she assess the patients for are their ABCs. ABCs are the patient’s airway, breathing, and circulation. Liz said “Without A, B, and C don’t matter.” Urden states that in the PACU…

The pre-op nurse is the 1st nursing professional most individuals who go through the WSC at St. A’s will work with. When they are first called from the waiting area the nurse is in charge of collecting a full set of vitals. These include, height(cm), weight(kg), blood pressure, temperature(F) and their oxygen saturation level. This offers a base line for after surgery as well as to know how much medications to administer and it gives an estimate on how well they will tolerate the anesthesia.…

corresponding oxyhemoglobin saturation is found from an empirically determined table. The individual measurements are made each second and fed into an algorithm in an Arduino, where they are accepted or rejected and then weighted using formulas. The displayed value is an average value based on the previous 3-6 seconds of recording and updated about every 0 5-1 second.…

The goal of this lab was to find the molar sucrose concentration at equilibrium. Which is when the potato core and the sucrose solution reach equilibrium, so that no water is entering or leaving the cell. After collecting the data, the line of best fit never crossed the x-axis or showed where the molar sucrose concentration at equilibrium. I had to extrapolated the point at which it crossed the x-axis. This led to the data being unreliable because there is no physical evidence present that…