Understanding Oxygenation in Medical Surgical Nursing

• Exchange of oxygen from alveoli to pulmonary capillary blood
• Decrease in blood oxygen concentration
• Decrease in oxygen in the tissue
• Movement of air into and out of the lungs (correct)

• Movement of air into and out of the lungs
• External respiration (correct)
• Diffusion of gases from blood to alveolar space
• Cellular respiration

• Movement of gases from higher concentration to lower concentration
• Exchange of oxygen from alveoli to pulmonary capillary blood
• Regulated by respiratory control centers in the brain
• Decrease in blood oxygen concentration (correct)

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