Hypoxia and Medicine

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Summary: at a PO2 of 100 dotted line in the right figure below there are about 20 ml O2 100 ml of normal arterial blood which is considerably more than the 0 3 ml dissolved in plasma The relative hemoglobin oxygen affinity is represented by the P50 dashed line in the right figure above The P50 is defined as the partial pressure of O2 required to achieve 50

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