Oxygen Hemoglobin Dissociation Curve Explained Clearly (Oxyhemoglobin Curve)

This is video 1 of 1 on the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve (also called oxygen dissociation curve and the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve).

Speaker: Roger Seheult, MD
Clinical and Exam Preparation Instructor
Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.

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[onikehinde]

Wow, understood it in just 8 minutes and I found it so hard to understand my Professor who wasn't explaining it in details. Bravo

[JustPiichi]

This helped me so much.. I could cry. 
Thank you from the very apex of my heart.

[KongRuPanda]

FINALLY A SIMPLE EXPLANATION!!
I couldn't study this curve for weeks and now that I'm cramming for my exam, this lecture helped a lot. Especially when I saw how the curve is drawn and which side is which with the factors affecting it.
Thank you so much!

[rimeln]

thank you soooo much! I don't understand why lecturers at uni waste a whole series of 5 lectures going through something that can be explained well by you in less than 10 minutes :') absolutely wonderful

[jmcmanus]

Ive reviewed this concept every few years and its never stuck, but I think it will now--the way you tied in the muscles and lungs to the features that cause the curve to shift was extremely effective! Thank you for sharing!

[iiBDRq]

Man! I’ve been struggling to understand that curve until I reached this video, it really helped me. Thank you very much.

[erinmedina]

Thanks! I had forgotten the small details from undergrad, I also didn't feel like getting up to get my Biochem book.

[roseline]

Simply wonderful! I was struggling with this concept for days but
understood it in less than 8 minutes after watching this video, thank

[Stereotactic_Shwermaectomy]

If you're ever a Program Director, I want to be in your program. Goodness gracious how you take a ridiculously explained concept in medical school and make it topic.

[Medcram]

Thanks- We hope to make difficult concepts come alive. Glad to clarify the textbook info.

[boarder]

Randomly found this.. and I work with this MD. Very good doc.

[Maria-itee]

Just found this channel while studying for a biochem exam... very helpful I was able to follow along with my note and this video just made things a little bit clearer for me!

[edwardsarfo]

No one explains it clearer than you do. Concisely great lecture !

[Medcram]

Thanks for the question. I actually said that RBCs have a bulge in the middle because "they've lost their nucleus" (not elastic nucleus). Hope this clears it up.

[nataliehill]

Working on my NP and your videos have undoubtedly been my saving grace in pathophys. You are a wonderful, wonderful teacher and I'm sure I can speak for many of us that we are so thankful to have educators like yourself. Thank you!

[depyification]

NEVER EXPECTED THAT THIS COULD BE EASY TO

[gaferg]

In the past, I've always associated a shift to the R or L from normal as a pathologic process and not a naturally shifting occurrence throughout the body. Thanks for the clarification!

[minimus.saevus]

I just watched 4 videos on this concept and this is the only one that my brain understood so thank you

[nishant]

Sir....you are teacher of the teachers...lots of respect for your fablous teaching...

[icejunki]

As we have come to expect from this channel. Something that can be made to be understood in 8 minutes. Time to go put it into practice.