A is the activating eventâthe event that triggers stress or worry. It might be a crisis in a personal relationship, a speech to be given, chronic lack of confidence, job dissatisfaction, or sexual problems...anything that sends a person to a counselor. Like Rogers, Ellis was willing to tackle any problem.
Historically, a low hemoglobin level of 8g/dL was set as a critical value in the SBMF system. However, in response to information from many sources, including recent transfusion medicine. literature, the critical value for hemoglobin will be reset to 7g/dL.
Since pulse oximetry only measures the percentage of bound hemoglobin, a falsely high or falsely low reading will occur when hemoglobin binds to something other than oxygen: 1  Hemoglobin has a higher affinity to carbon monoxide than oxygen, and a high reading may occur despite the patient actually being hypoxemic.