Hypoxemia in Anesthesiology - Differential Diagnosis and Management 

Management: 

• increase Fi02 to 100% - verify! 
• check ETC02 / peak airway pressure 
• hand ventilate with large volumes 
• look at chest 
• auscultate breath sounds 
• check endotracheal tube / circuit 
• suction 
• check pulse oximeters / color of patient (artefacts?) 
• arterial blood gas 
• reintubate? 
• ambu-bag / O2 tank 

Mark Harris, MD MPH @ https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisMD

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Dr. Mark Harris @MarkHarrisMD · 6 years ago
Clinical faculty in Department of Anesthesiology at University of Utah Health. https://medicine.utah.edu/anesthesi Tweets at https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisMD
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