OXYGEN INSUFFICIENCY

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 INTRODUCTION
• Oxygen is required to sustain life.
• Blood is oxygenated through the mechanism
of ventilation, perfusion and transport of
respiratory gasses.
• Inadequacy of oxygen to the cell leads to the
condition called oxygen insufficiency.
 MEANING OF OXYGEN
• A colorless, odorless gas, constituting one fifth
of the atmosphere.
• 21% of oxygen present in the atmospheric air.
 OXYGENATION

Oxygenation means the delivery of oxygen to

the body’s tissues and cells to maintain life.
 PROCESS OF OXYGENATION

• VENTILATION: - The exchange of air between the

environment and the lungs.
• DIFFUSION: - The exchange of oxygen from the
alveoli in the blood and co2 in the opposite
direction.
• TRANSPORTATION:- Movement of oxygen,co2,other
nutrient metabolic wastes etc.in the blood.
• PERFUSION:- The process of delivering blood to a
capillary bed in its biological tissue
ANATOMICAL REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY
SYSTEM
 LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT

 LUNGS
 DEFINITION
Oxygen insufficiency is a failure to provide
adequate oxygen to cells of the body and to
remove excess carbondixoide from them.