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The Use of Pulse Oximetry to Determine Hypoxemia in Acute Exacerbations of COPD

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Table 1.  Descriptive analysis

Figure 1. Relationship between oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry and calculated from blood gas analysis.

Figure 1. Relationship between oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry and calculated from blood gas analysis.

Figure 2. ROC curve for ability of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry predicting systemic hypoxemia.

Figure 2. ROC curve for ability of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry predicting systemic hypoxemia.

Table 2.  Performance of different levels of screening cut-off for the detection of hypoxia by pulse oximetry in derivation sample

Figure 3. ROC curve for the performance of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry for predicting hypercapnic respiratory failure.

Figure 3. ROC curve for the performance of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry for predicting hypercapnic respiratory failure.

Table 3.  Performance of different levels of screening cut-off for the detection of hypercapnic respiratory failure by pulse oximetry

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