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Near infra-red spectroscopy and arterial oxygen extraction at altitude
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Wolff, Christopher B, Richardson, Neil, Kemp, Oliver, Kuttler, Anya, McMorrow, Roger, Hart, Nigel and Imray, C. (Chris) (2007) Near infra-red spectroscopy and arterial oxygen extraction at altitude. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology , Vol.599 . pp. 183-189. ISSN 0065-2598.
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Official URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/17727263
Abstract
The ratio of oxygenated to total haemoglobin (Hb), or rSO2, obtained by near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), includes both arterial and venous blood of the region examined. The relationship of arterial oxygen extraction, E, and saturation, SaO2, to rSO2 can be expressed, for normally functioning tissue, as E = 1.39 (1 - rSO2/SaO2). Cerebral E, at rest, is constant at lower altitudes but is reduced at 5000 m. This corresponds to constant values of E for SaO2 values above 90% (approximately). E declines linearly for lower SaO2 values, either including measurement at high altitude or at sea level with a reduced inspiratory oxygen concentration. In addition to measurements of brain NIRS resting oxygen extraction of liver, muscle and kidney have also been calculated from NIRS measurements made, on normal inspired air, at sea level and after acute ascent to 2400 m and 5050 m. At 5050 m E was reduced for all four regions but at 2400 m was the same as at sea level for brain, liver and muscle; for the kidney E was elevated at 2400 m. Cerebral oxygen extraction was calculated for rest and the full range of exercise. It was constant at sea level for the lower levels of exercise and, if the calculated extraction value assumptions still hold at lower SaO2 values, reduced for the higher work rates at intermediate altitudes. The present study confirms constancy of oxygen extraction and hence the ratio of oxygen delivery to oxygen consumption (1/E), within physiological limits, and appears to show where those limits lay and, to some extent, show how matters change beyond ordinary physiological limits.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Translational & Experimental Medicine > Metabolic and Vascular Health (- until July 2016) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
| ISSN: | 0065-2598 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2007 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.599 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 183-189 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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