Definition : Impaired Gas Exchange
Circumstances where an individual has decreased course of gas (O2 and CO2) that an actual or risk of lung alveoli and the vascular system.
Related Factors:
Circumstances where an individual has decreased course of gas (O2 and CO2) that an actual or risk of lung alveoli and the vascular system.
Related Factors:
- Altered oxygen supply
- Alveolar-capillary membrane changes
- Altered blood flow
- Altered oxygen-carrying capacity of blood
Major Data
Dyspnea when performing activities
Minor data
- Confusion / agitation.
- The tendency to take a three-point position (sitting, one hand on each knee, leaning forward).
- Breathing with the lips with a long expiratory phase.
- Lethargy and fatigue.
- Increased pulmonary vascular resistance.
- Decrease in gastric motility.
- Decrease in oxygen content, decreased O2 saturation, PCO2 decreased as shown by the results of blood gas analysis.
- Cyanosis.