Ventilation, acidosis and blood chemistry

[Pirarucu]

Originally Posted by MDT

This is an interesting start. Essentially the same numbers from ambient to burrow (the CO2 value may be a statistically sig number)...now, how to determine the clinical relevance of these numbers and what the metabolic significance actually is?

I don't know what a ppm value is and how that correlates with a percentage of dissolved gas in an organism....

Ppm = Parts Per Million.

[MDT]

Originally Posted by Pirarucu

Ppm = Parts Per Million.

yep..that part i know, however, what does an atmospheric reading of ppm mean in an organism? OSHA standards CO2 is less than 600ppm....I just don't know how that number correlates to in terms of PaCO2. Another example, percentage of oxygen bound to the hemoglobin molecule is represented by SaO2. Typically, room air O2 saturation should be approx 97%-100% in a healthy individual. I'm sure there may be come conversion rule out there, but I've been out of school too long to remember it and don't really want to Google right now

I guess what I'm trying to say, is that these are interesting answers to the original questions, however, to really find a clinical (or husbandry related) relevance, there are many other parameters that need to be sampled.