{"id":3614,"date":"2023-04-27T03:57:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2023-04-27T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:57:16","slug":"the-joy-of-fick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?p=3614","title":{"rendered":"The Joy Of Fick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Fick Principle+<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.pftforum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fick-Q.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Adolf Eugen Fick was a German physiologist. He earned his doctorate in medicine at Marburg. In 1855 he introduced Fick&#8217;s law of diffusion, which governs the diffusion of a gas across a fluid membrane. In 1870 he was the first to devise a technique for measuring cardiac output, called the Fick principle.<br><br>The idea behind the the Fick principle is that perfusion through an organ (or entire being for that matter) can be determined by measuring the difference in oxygen concentration between arterial and venous blood (this would explain why atmospheric air contains 21% oxygen and expired air contains 16% oxygen). \u00a0\u00a0What&#8217;s important to note is Dr. Fick was using oxygen to measure cardiac output (he could have used another gas). \u00a0\u00a0The work of understanding this equation is comes from analyzing the variables that affect the oxygen gradients. \u00a0Physicians, physiologists, scientists have toyed with this equation for many years and what can be inferred from Fick\u2019s equations is that the movement of oxygen in the body depends on the following:<br><br>1. \u00a0Adequate concentration of inspired oxygen<br>2. \u00a0Appropriate movement of oxygen across the alveolar-capillary membrane into the arterial bloodstream.<br>3. \u00a0Adequate number of red blood cells to carry the oxygen<br>4. \u00a0Proper tissue perfusion<br>5. \u00a0Efficient off-loading of oxygen at the tissue level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fick Principle+ Adolf Eugen Fick was a German physiologist. He earned his doctorate in medicine at Marburg. In 1855 he introduced Fick&#8217;s law of diffusion, which governs the diffusion of a gas across a fluid membrane. In 1870 he was the first to devise a technique for measuring cardiac output, called the Fick principle. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}