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Pulse Oximetry

Dr. Traci Wolbrink discusses pulse oximetry.

Released:

June 9, 2014

Audience:

Physicians, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Emergency Medical Technicians, Nursing Students, Paramedics

Learning Objectives
  • Re‑conceptualize pediatric pulmonary hypertension as pulmonary hypertensive vascular disease.

  • Explain why adult hemodynamic definitions are insufficient for children

  • Describe pediatric‑specific classification systems for pulmonary vascular disease

  • Apply a multidisciplinary framework to the management of pediatric PH

  • Implement a physiology‑based, stepwise approach to pulmonary hypertensive crisis in the ICU

Author(s)

Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH

Co-Director, OPENPediatrics; Co-Director, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation; Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine | Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Anaesthesia | Harvard Medical School

Citation

Wolbrink TA. Pulse Oximetry. 6/2014. Online Video. OPENPediatrics. https://learn.openpediatrics.org/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/3098/pulse-oximetry.

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