A Patient Has a Normal Oxygen Partial Pressure and Content

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient has a normal oxygen partial pressure and content in pulmonary venous blood but his systemic arterial blood shows a significantly lower than normal oxygen partial pressure and content. This is diagnostic of which of the following?

• A)Diffusion limitation
• B)Right-to-left shunt
• C)Pulmonary ventilation/perfusion nonuniformity
• D)Stagnant hypoxia (low cardiac output)

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