Hypoxemia develops when the oxygen supply of the body was interrupted resulting to low level oxygen in the blood.
Here is the diagram on what is going on inside our body to compensate once it experiences low supply of oxygen in the blood . . .
Low blood oxygen ----------> triggers the release of inactive erythropoietin (from the
liver) ----------> this erythropoietin releases to the blood ----------> triggers the release of
renal erythropoietin factor (from the kidney) ----------> it converts inactive to active
erythropoietin ----------> active erythropoietin stimulates red bone marrow ---------->
production of more erythrocytes ----------> contains hemoglobin (picks up oxygen in the
lungs) and helps to transport more oxygen to the body.
1 comments:
Very useful blog. Well done.
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