Question

A 67-year-old male is brought in by EMS after being found unconscious on the first floor of a burning building. On exam, his respiratory rate is 14 breaths/min with scattered wheezes. He has no evidence of any burns, but dark soot is caked around much of his face. Suspecting inhalational injury, you expect this man's oxygen-hemoglobin curve will be?

Answer 1

Left.

Step-by-step explanation:

Oxygen hemoglobin dissociation curve is used to understand the relationship between the hemoglobin and the release of the oxygen. Temperature, BPG concentration affects the oxygen hemoglobin dissociation curve.

The inhalation injury decrease oxygen amount in the body. This will shift the curve to the left as more oxygen will enter in the body and oxygen associate more rapidly with hemoglobin and the body tries to adapt to increase the oxygen consumption in the body..

Thus, the answer is left.