what can cause my oxygen count to be 71%?

Question

Can you please tell me why excess oxygen causes an increase in c02 levels?

Answer 1

Most likely...: ...A mistake - like improper placement of the pulse oximeter. Most people with 71% oxygen saturation are either fainting or close to it.

Answer 2

Put oxygen in nose: Is is giving oxygen to someone who doesn't have the ability to keep the right amount in their blood due to improper exchange from the lungs to the blood.

Answer 3

A gas: Oxygen therapy is usually given to people who have cardiac and pulmonary disease and have low oxygen saturations. The oxygen comes in a tank or concentrator and the flow is adjusted to deliver oxygen to keep a specific blood saturation above 88.

Answer 4

No: A 'hit' of oxygen will do nothing for you if in fact your body needs oxygen. Once a condition has caused lung damage or heart damage to the point where supplemental oxygen is needed, then the oxygen is needed more or less all the time. Sometimes there is a temporary need for oxygen, such as with in pneumonia, but this requires oxygen until the infection clears.

Answer 5

Yes.: Isn't that what we all do? Well... Technically that is not exactly correct. Breathing is controlled by need to ventilate ( get rid of co2) and the need to oxygenate ( keep o2 levels up).

Answer 6

Yes and No: Breathing 100% oxygen can be harmful over time. Symptoms may include disorientation, breathing problems, and vision changes. Prolonged high oxygen doses cause damage to cell membranes and can cause seizures. However, sometimes breathing pure oxygen is necessary for treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning or in adult respiratory distress syndrome (ards).

Answer 7

It is safe: Pure oxygen is only available in artificial conditions. It is used clinically for certain infections and inflammations. There is no danger to this although long term exposure has not been studied as that would require complex artificial conditions that no one is likely to attempt. But repeated exposures in clinical apparatus may treat the condition for which it is given without toxicity.

Answer 8

Parkinson's: The research that has looked at this issue is not conclusive. This indication is not one of the those approved for payment from medicare so the cost burden returns to the patient.

Answer 9

No: No research to show this helps.

Answer 10

No: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (hbot) is not approved for use in this condition by the fda, the centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms) or the undersea and hyperbaric medical society. While there are a number of studies looking at hbot for certain neurological conditions, there is no evidence for any benefit in parkinson's.

Answer 11

The following:: Must not - people with a collapsed lung or are using medications that impair wound healing (cisplatin, sulfamylon), affect the lungs (bleomycin) or other (doxorubicin, disulfiram). Might not - those with asthma, claustrophobia, copd, pregnancy, an epidural pain pump, a pacemaker, seizure disorder, upper respiratory infection, high fever, eustachian tube dysfunction, or congenital spherocytosis.

Answer 12

A small group.: People with untreated collapsed lung, those with some types of chemotherapy, recent eye surgery with gas infusion, extremely claustrophobic persons.

Answer 13

A/W Dr. Ferdowsi: Untreated pneumothorax = absolute contraindication to hbot. Contraindications: recent / current use of cisplatin, doxorubicin, disulfram or mafenide acetate. Relative contraindications: high fever, emphysema (w c02 retention), asthma, URI (difficulty clearing), previous thoracic or ear surgery, malignancies, seizure hx, optic neuritis, pace maker, chronic sinusitis, spherocytosis (congenital), .

Answer 14

For a good review: try the following link as the relative and absolute contraindications cannot be listed with only 400 characters, http://www.hyperbaricoxygentherapies.com/hyperbaric-therapy-contraindications/

Answer 15

Few exceptions: Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment HBO or HBO2T is a treatment whereby the patient breaths 100% Oxygen under a higher than atmospheric pressure, usually 2 atmospheres. Due to this hyper oxygenation and the fact that the patient will be exposed to a "dive" of 33 feet of water (the equivalent depth of 2 atm) there are some patient's who may not tolerate the treatment well.

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