If you’ve been around respiratory care or pulmonary medicine any length of time, you are likely very familiar with the idea of both lung compliance and airways resistance. The concept of compliance is arguably the […]
So here we are… not another formula, right? No worries. This one is actually quite straight forward and relatively easy to work out. The tricky part lies in the interpretation of the result – isn’t […]
If you don’t have access to the calculator above simply use the following formula to calculate the minutes remaining in your oxygen tank: Here’s what you will need: Tank size & conversion factor for that […]
Formula: PAO2 – PaO2 = P(A-a)O2 The Alveolar-arterial gradient (A-a gradient) is a mathematical equation that calculates how difficult it is for oxygen to cross the alveolar-capillary membrane. The equation utilizes two pressures; The partial […]
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