Emergency Medicine3:10September 28, 2022

Oxygen Induced CO2 Narcosis in COPD Patients

EK

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ECG Education Channel

About this video

In this video, we have explained why patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) tend to retain carbon dioxide when given oxygen therapy. The process is known is Oxygen induced hypercapnia. There are two reasons why this happens, first V/Q mismatch and second Haldane effect. #respiratorydisease #acidosis #co2 _______________________________________________________________ Topics 0:00 Intro 0:26 Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction 1:00 V/Q mismatch 1:45 Haldane effect ___________...

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Emergency Medicine