Hypoxia and Medicine

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Summary: the right atrium and right ventricle and pulmonary artery with a left to right shunt across the ventricular septum A shunt fraction can be calculated as follows where = pulmonary flow = systemic flow Sao2 = arterial oxygen saturation Mvo2 = mixed venous oxygen saturation Pvo2 = pulmonary venous oxygen saturation and Pao2 = pulmonary arterial

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