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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

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This graph shows the gaseous equivalent volume of oxygen stored in the lungs, bound to hemoglobin, and dissolved in the plasma for people breathing room air (far left) vs the same people pre-oxygenated by breathing 100% O2 (far right), and then after they have desatted to 90% while apneic (center). Figure 7: (modified from Tanoubi 2009).

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