{"id":8176,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hypoxemia\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:51","slug":"hypoxemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hypoxemia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypoxemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as oxygen desaturation, it is an insufficient or abnormally-low level of oxygenation of the arterial blood. &nbsp;On average, normal oxygen levels are about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.convertunits.com\/info\/mm+Hg\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.convertunits.com\/info\/mm+Hg&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mm Hg<\/a>. &nbsp;With hypoxemia, it decreases to as low as 89 mm Hg. &nbsp;During hypoxemia, the oxygen saturation of the blood is less than 90% (with normal values ranging from 98 to 100%), which constitutes the formal definition of hypoxemia. &nbsp;Below 80% is treated as severe hypoxemia. &nbsp;Sometimes hypoxemia can give rise to hypoxia. &nbsp;In preterm infants, transient episodes of hypoxemia (oxygen saturation less than 85%) are observed during mechanical ventilation, even after the acute phase of respiratory failure has occurred. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"anoxia\">Anoxia<\/a>, <a href=\"birth_asphyxia\">Birth asphyxia<\/a>, <a href=\"cord_prolapse\">Cord prolapse<\/a>, Hypoxia, <a href=\"hypoxic-ischemic_encephalopathy_-hie-\">Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)<\/a>, <a href=\"preterm_infant\">Preterm infant<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as oxygen desaturation, it is an insufficient or abnormally-low level of oxygenation of the arterial blood. &nbsp;On average, normal oxygen levels are about mm Hg. &nbsp;With hypoxemia, it decreases to as low as 89 mm Hg. &nbsp;During hypoxemia, the oxygen saturation of the blood is less than 90% (with normal values ranging from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hypoxemia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hypoxemia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}