Frontiers

Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Thrombolysis in Acute Intermediate-High Risk Pulmonary ...

Conclusion: In patients with acute intermediate-high-risk PTE and a PaO2/FiO2 ratio <300 mmHg, low-dose thrombolysis yielded early improvements in oxygenation, mPAP and right ventricular function, ...
Frontiers

Lung Injury Is a Predictor of Cerebral Hypoxia and Mortality in Traumatic Brain Injury

Background: A major contributor to unfavorable outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is secondary brain injury. Low brain tissue oxygen tension (PbtO2) has shown to be an independent predictor of ...
Too Old to Operate

Understanding Patient Outcomes in COVID-19 via Prognostic Significance of P/F Ratio

The following is a summary of “Prognostic value of PaO2/FiO2 ratio in predicting clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients,” published in the June 2024 issue of Critical Care by Canto-Costal et al.
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【異常値は？】SpO2とPaO2はどっちが大事？【高すぎもダメ？】

SpO2，PaO2，どちらも酸素化の指標ですよね？ 敷居が低いのはSpO2なのではないでしょうか？ クリニックから病院まで，外来から入院，もっと言えば，最近は新型コロナの影響もあり，一般の方がSpO2モニターを購入したりしますよね． 一方，PaO2は，動脈採血 ...
BMJ

Severity of respiratory failure at admission and in-hospital mortality in patients with ...

Objectives COVID-19 causes lung parenchymal and endothelial damage that lead to hypoxic acute respiratory failure (hARF). The influence of hARF severity on patients’ outcomes is still poorly ...
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「A-aDO2」の計算式について

正常値は10mmHg以下で、数値が大きくなった場合は「呼吸不全」があるという検査です。 Aとaの二つあり、その酸素（O2）のDifference（違い）がA-aDO2です。呼吸をして取り込まれた酸素は気道から肺胞に入って、そこから動脈に行きますね。A-aDO2は直訳すると ...