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A systematic read of an arterial blood gas to find acid-base and oxygenation problems.
pH, then CO2 (respiratory) and HCO3 (metabolic), then compensation.
Oxygen–Haemoglobin Dissociation Curve
The sigmoid curve relating haemoglobin's oxygen saturation to the partial pressure of oxygen.
Lung Volumes & Spirometry
Measurement of the air volumes moved by the lungs.
Regulation of Respiration
How the brainstem and the chemoreceptors set the depth and rate of breathing, minute by minute, without you thinking about it.
Hypoxia: The Four Types
Oxygen can fail tissues at four different points, and naming which point is failing explains the whole clinical picture.