Open AccessOxygen saturation trends in the first hour of life in healthy full-term neonates born at moderate altitude
Author(s) -
Hamid Habıb
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
pakistan journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1682-024X
pISSN - 1681-715X
DOI - 10.12669/pjms.294.3848
Subject(s) - medicine , pulse oximetry , oxygen saturation , effects of high altitude on humans , hypoxemia , heart rate , gestational age , respiratory rate , hypoxia (environmental) , anesthesia , altitude (triangle) , blood pressure , oxygen , pregnancy , chemistry , genetics , organic chemistry , biology , anatomy , geometry , mathematics
Transition from a parallel circulation in utero to an in-series circulation immediately after birth is partly an oxygen-dependent process. Relative hypoxemia with increasing altitude above sea level exerts a certain degree of stress on oxygen-dependent metabolic processes throughout the body.