Acute lung injury. Assessment of tissue oxygenation.
The physiologic factors governing oxygen delivery to the peripheral tissues are briefly reviewed to show how tissue PO2 is defended when acute lung injury causes arterial hypoxemia. A loss of recruitable capillary reserve in the tissues may be another serious consequence of the same events that cause lung injury in the adult respiratory distress syndrome, and may cause a defect in tissue oxygen extraction.
Cain
S M
SM
Pulmonary Division, University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Medicine.
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000503:physiopathology; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism
D010100:Oxygen