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3619839

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-8-31
pubmed:abstractText
Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that results from severe trauma often occurs in remote places, making it necessary to transport the patients to tertiary medical facilities by air. Since these severely hypoxic patients are exposed to additional risk of reduced inspired oxygen tension due to decreased barometric pressure, the feasibility of transportation of these patients was investigated by computer analysis. Mathematical models of pulmonary gas exchange in patients with ARDS were developed to calculate arterial and mixed venous blood tensions while breathing room air and oxygen at sea level, 8,000 ft, and 40,000 ft. Under each condition the following parameters were varied: alveolar ventilation (VA), cardiac output (Q), metabolic rate (VO2), hematocrit (Hcrit), and membrane diffusing capacity for oxygen (DmO2). Most of the gas exchange problems at altitude could be overcome by breathing oxygen as long as cardiac output and hematocrit were adequate. Hypoxemia in ARDS patients will not be greatly affected by the reduced inspired oxygen tensions at altitude in much the same way that hypoxemia in ARDS is poorly responsive to increased inspired oxygen tensions at sea level.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0095-6562
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
645-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Air transportation of patients with acute respiratory failure: theory.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.