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In patients? I assume. There are a couple of ways. The easiest is to place a probe on a finger (or ear lobe) that has a red light. Because blood with oxygen is differently colored than blood without oxygen, the light coming through the finger or ear lobe will vary, depending on the amount of oxygen in the blood. The machine correlates the color to the percentage of hemoglobin molecules that are carrying oxygen. Anything about 96% is good.
The older method involves a "blood gas" sample, which is drawn from an artery, usually the radial artery in your wrist (the pulse on the thumb side). The sample is taken to the lab, where the type and amount of gases in the blood are analyzed (usually oxygen and carbon dioxide). This takes longer and is obviously painful, but it is more accurate, and the best way to check carbon dioxide levels (which rise if you are not breathing enough).
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Why do you find oxygen in hospitals?
Oxygen is available for patients who are not breathing well enough to get by on regular air.
Which characteristic of a gas is used in supplying oxygen cylindersto hospitals?
compressibility
How do you test oxygen using a splint test?
Place a glowing splint into the test tube. If the glowing splint relights, then oxygen is present, otherwise oxygen is not present.
What characteristics of a gas is used in supplying oxygen cylinders to hospitals?
Gas can be compressed easily.
What will happen when you thrust a glowing bamboo stick inside the test tube with oxygen?
The glowing splint will relight if you place it in a flask with oxygen. Scientists do this as a test for oxygen so if it relights, then that means the flask contains oxygen.
Why oxygen used in hospitals?
some of the patients in hospitals need a higher percentage of oxygen to help them breathe.
Where person get oxygen for artificial respiration?
an PERSON GETS ARTIFICIAL OXYGEN FROM THE CYLINDER that are attached to the hospitals.
Why do you find oxygen in hospitals?
Oxygen is available for patients who are not breathing well enough to get by on regular air.
Which characteristic of a gas is used in supplying oxygen cylindersto hospitals?
compressibility
What is oxygen used for and why?
oxygen is used for many things like in hospitals when people are having difficulties ti breath.
What is the lab test for Oxygen?
The standard test for oxygen is that it relight a glowing splint.
How do you test oxygen using a splint test?
Place a glowing splint into the test tube. If the glowing splint relights, then oxygen is present, otherwise oxygen is not present.
What is an example of industrial commercial preparation of oxygen?
well most hospitals have an oxygen generator as they consume quite a bit of it. is this what you meant?
Do all people who work in hospitals need to take a patient care technician practice test?
All people whom work in hospitals need to take the patient care technician test, so they will be prepared. It's important for all the people who work in hospitals to do so.
Which gas is used to assist the breathing of many patients in hospitals?
Oxygen is used in order to assist the breathing of many patients
What characteristics of a gas is used in supplying oxygen cylinders to hospitals?
Gas can be compressed easily.
What test would you use to distinguish between nitrogen an oxygen?
You can test for oxygen by placing a glowing splint (not lit but not out) into the test tube where you think oxygen is present. If the splint relights, that means that it is oxygen. If this doesn't happen, then in your case it will be nitrogen.
