title: Clinical application. Using oxygenation profiles to manage patients.
abstract: Cellular oxygenation is dependent on both tissue oxygenation and pulmonary oxygenation. The use of profiles can help to make the assessment of tissue and pulmonary oxygenation more thorough. Although oxygenation profiles have limitations, an understanding of them can provide useful information to the critical care nurse. Oxygenation profiles enable the nurse to trend a patient's progress and response to nursing and medical interventions. A sophisticated assessment relies not merely on physical assessment alone but incorporates continuous mixed venous oxygenation and oxygenation profiles to assess a patient's tissue and pulmonary oxygenation status.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Critical Care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schallom
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ahrens
mesh_terms: D001784:Blood Gas Analysis / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D015687:Cell Hypoxia; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen