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He is on the Board of Directors for the Intensive Care Foundation and is a First Part Examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine.

He is also a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is a co-founder of the Australia and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) and is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme.

an exaggerated FiO2 dependence in intrapulmonary shunt (PAO2 vs PAO2/PaO2 difference diagram with regard to increasing percentage of shunt) and even more so in V/Q mismatch.Ĭhris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne.

For every decade a person has lived, their A–a gradient is expected to increase by 1 mmHg – a conservative estimate of normal A–a gradient is < + 4.

FiO2 1.0 – 31 mmHg in young, 56 mmHg in elderly.

FiO2 0.21 – 7 mmHg in young, 14 mmHg in elderly.

Right-to-Left shunt (intrapulmonary or cardiac).

Low PiO2 (FiO2 < 0.21 or barometric pressure < 760 mmHg).

Alveolar hypoventilation (elevated PACO2).

However, the A–a gradient increases with age (see limitations)ĬLASSIFICATION OF HYPOXIA BASED ON A-a GRADIENT.

A normal A–a gradient for a young adult non-smoker breathing air, is between 5–10 mmHg.

PAO2 is the ‘ideal’ compartment alveolar PO2 determined from the alveolar gas equation.

A-a gradient is calculated as PAO2 – PaO2