Pulse Oximetry More than just a Percentage!

Anaesthesia & Analgesia | Veterinary Nursing | 66 mins

Pulse oximetry as part of the monitoring protocol for anesthetized patients has become the standard of care for veterinary medicine in recent years and helps to increase patient safety.  Pulse oximeters provide us with information on tissue oxygenation, gives a pulse rate, SpO2, and plethysmography adds valuable information about monitor accuracy and also may detect changes in volume status with the potential to direct patient management with respect to blood volume and fluid resuscitation.

Within this presentation we will discuss basic respiratory physiology, what pulse oximetry tells us and how it works, the common causes of hypoxaemia, hypoxia, and what we can do to reduce the risk of serious complications in our patients.

Meet the speakers

Janette Bailey-Woods

RVN, NCert (Anaesthesia & ECC), VTS (Anaesthesia & Analgesia)

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Janette qualified as an RVN in 2001 and worked in a mixed animal practice in Cumbria for 15 years. In 2013, Janette moved to work in an orthopaedic referral hospital before moving to Wear Referrals, a multi-discipline referral hospital in 2015, where she now works within the anaesthesia team as lead anaesthesia nurse. Janette has gained the NCert ECC and NCert Anaesthesia qualification, and in 2021 achieved the Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) in Anaesthesia and Analgesia, a prestigious credential awarded by the Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Anaesthesia and Analgesia and held by only a handful of veterinary nurses in the UK. Out of work, Janette has two dogs, Hector and Goose, she is an outdoor enthusiast, spending time in the forest where she lives, walking up mountains or being on 'Precilla' her much loved mountain bike!      

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