Open AccessArterial oxygen desaturation during transport of the post-surgery patient from operation site to recovery ward
Author(s) -
Ricardo Hernán Medrano,
Luís Rosa Napal,
María Soledad Zabalza,
Beatríz Hernández
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anales del sistema sanitario de navarra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.175
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2340-3527
pISSN - 1137-6627
DOI - 10.23938/assn.0512
Subject(s) - anesthesia , medicine , oxygen saturation , pulse oximetry , saturation (graph theory) , oxygen , surgery , chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , combinatorics
One of the most frequent complications in the immediate post-operation period is the fall in arterial oxygen saturation due to different factors, outstanding of which is the time that the patient remains disconnected from the oxygen supply during transport from the operation site to the recovery ward. The aim of the present paper is to measure the proportion of arterial desaturation in patients who arrive in the recovery room proceeding from the operation site without oxygen provision during transport.