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The Oxygen Status in Arterial Human Blood: Terminology, Diagnosis and Determination of Parameters

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The theme of this symposium is arterial oxygen saturation, its measurement and its diagnostic significance. For a better understanding of this we need to consider first the general aspects of oxygen in human blood. Therefore let us look at the terminology of the so-called oxygen status of arterial blood.

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  1. R. Zander
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  2. F. Mertzlufft
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  1. Research Department of Anaesthetics, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PN, England

    James P. Payne MB, ChB, FFARCS, MD (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital) (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital)

  2. Department of Anesthesia, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, California, 94143, USA

    J. W. Severinghaus MD, FFARCS

  3. Anaesthetics Unit, The London Hospital Medical College, UK

    James P. Payne MB, ChB, FFARCS, MD (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital) (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital)

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Zander, R., Mertzlufft, F. (1986). The Oxygen Status in Arterial Human Blood: Terminology, Diagnosis and Determination of Parameters. In: Payne, J.P., Severinghaus, J.W. (eds) Pulse Oximetry. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1423-9_3

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