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Do changes in pulse oximeter oxygen saturation predict equivalent changes in arterial oxygen saturation?
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Perkins, Gavin D., McAuley, D. F., Giles, S., Routledge, H. and Gao, F. (2003) Do changes in pulse oximeter oxygen saturation predict equivalent changes in arterial oxygen saturation? Critical Care Medicine, 7 (4). R67. doi:10.1186/cc2339 ISSN 0090-3493.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc2339
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: This study investigates the relation between changes in pulse oximeter oxygen saturation (SpO2) and changes in arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) in the critically ill, and the effects of acidosis and anaemia on precision of using pulse oximetry to predict SaO2.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Forty-one consecutive patients were recruited from a nine-bed general intensive care unit into a 2-month study. Patients with significant jaundice (bilirubin >40 micromol/l) or inadequate pulse oximetry tracing were excluded.
RESULTS: A total of 1085 paired readings demonstrated only moderate correlation (r= 0.606; P < 0.01) between changes in SpO2 and those in SaO2, and the pulse oximeter tended to overestimate actual changes in SaO2. Anaemia increased the degree of positive bias whereas acidosis reduced it. However, the magnitude of these changes was small.
CONCLUSION: Changes in SpO2 do not reliably predict equivalent changes in SaO2 in the critically ill. Neither anaemia nor acidosis alters the relation between SpO2 and SaO2 to any clinically important extent.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Care Medicine | ||||||
Publisher: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | ||||||
ISSN: | 0090-3493 | ||||||
Official Date: | 11 June 2003 | ||||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Article Number: | R67 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1186/cc2339 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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