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Hemoglobin and Oxygen Transport
Charles L. Webber, Jr., Ph.D.

Loyola University Medical Center

 

Learning Objectives: You should be able to:

Rhodes & Tanner Text Readings: chapter 21, Pages 391-394.

Partial Pressures and Contents     Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve     Oxygen Supply and Demand

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Partial Pressures and Contents in the Blood

  1. Basic Principles

     

  2. Gas Partial Pressures in Systemic Arterial and Venous Blood

     

  3. Absorption Atelectasis

Partial Pressures and Contents     Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve     Oxygen Supply and Demand

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Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve

  1. Physical Solution of Oxygen

     

  2. Oxygen Carriage by Hemoglobin

     

  3. Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve

Partial Pressures and Contents     Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve     Oxygen Supply and Demand

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Oxygen Supply and Demand

  1. Basic Concepts

     

  2. Effect of Decreasing Blood Flow for Constant Metabolic Rate

     

  3. Effect of Increasing Metabolic Rate for Constant Blood Flow

     

  4. Summary

Partial Pressures and Contents     Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve     Oxygen Supply and Demand

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Alterations in Oxygen Dissociation Curve

  1. Normal Curve Shifts

     

  2. Abnormal Curve Shapes