Critical Care Applied Physiology – Gas Exchange

Alan Morris, MD, Professor of Medicine from University of Utah and Intermountain Medical Center, teaches the University of Utah fellows critical care physiology in a summer lecture series.  These lectures are an excellent foundation for the physiologic principles of critical care medicine.

• Fire of Life

• Dissociation Curves

• Mass Balance

• Ventilation: Gas Exchange

• Alveolar-Capillary Gas Transport

• DLCO Measurement Considerations

• Circulation Gas Transport

• Systemic Capillary-Tissue Gas Transport

• Hypercapneic Respiratory Failure Considerations

• Mechanical Ventilation: Inverse Ratio Considerations

• Alveolar PO2 Calculation Examples

• Blood Oxygen Measures

• Arterial Oxygenation Categorization

• Tissue Hypoxia and Arterial Oxygenation

• Hypoxic Respiratory Failure Considerations