Talk:Oxygen saturation

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I added the medical sense of the word here and redirected dissolved oxygen here. Maybe these should all be on separate pages, but I didn't think there was enough content to justify 3 pages. Anyone else have thoughts? It would be great if someone could add more content and justify a split. Jmeppley 19:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I think it works well as you set it up. Someday, a split might be justified - Marshman 22:27, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Inconsistent data
The data given for oxygen saturation at various temperatures gives data that is inconsistent with the weiss equation, 3 lines below.
 * Do not know what values you are getting for the Weiss equation, but the three sets of parameters give correct (100%) saturation values by the equations I use in my work. Possibly there is a typo in the equation? - Marshman 16:53, 21 May 2005 (UTC)cool

Replaced equation and constants
Someone deleted the Weiss equation, so I replaced it. The constants are correct, and I tested the equation successfully for three values of T. Don't forget that the USGS tables lists DO saturation in mg/L, but the Weiss equation calculates in ml/L. You must multiply the solution from the Weiss equation by 1.4276 to obtain mg/L. -- S.C. Ertman 207.241.202.150 22:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The value for A4 is incorrect. It should be A4 = -21.8492 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.64.82.119 (talk) 21:02, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

dissolved oxygen in water
just a question- what conversion should be used for dissolved oxygen when changing from mg/l to % saturation. kind regards Paul

You would divide your concentration by the saturation concentration, making certain that the units are the same. 216.59.251.240 18:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Be sure to note the temperature since saturation varies considerably inversely with temperature. wcf Facts are stubborn. Comments? 19:28, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Medical term
Is it my misunderstanding that in abbreviation, oxygen saturation in medicine is referred to as "sats"? If so, then shouldn't this article redirect from sats? I was trying to find out more about it but couldn't get past it. Josh LeePAGE 15:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I have added a redirect for now Josh LeePAGE 15:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

i TRY IF I CAN EDIT THIS WITHOUT ANY DUBDS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.248.8.106 (talk) 09:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be two articles?
Since Oxygen saturation in Medicine and Oxygen saturation in Environmental science are almost completely different things, shouldn't they be separate articles? -OOPSIE- 06:06, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes! I don't know anything about either subject, but it is really goofy as it stands. We need a modestly expert editor to merge the environmental material into an appropriate geo-science article, assuming one exists (it must, surely) and assuming what we have here is not entirely redundant.  Wwheaton (talk) 07:01, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I did it after searching around a bit, moving the environmental material to Oxygenation (environmental). Some question if the title of either article is right, but at least the material is in separate articles.  Wwheaton (talk) 07:24, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * So shouldn't the part about the environment in this part be changed? That's why I came here. I am working to understand the pollution in US waterways. BradyDale (talk) 20:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

pH?
I came to this page with one question, and I couldn't find the answer. Is the pH of water shifted by the presence of dissolved oxygen? If not, is it because O2 does not dissociate? And should anything be said about what happens when ozone is injected into water as a disinfectant? And what about a link to hydrogen peroxide? blackcloak (talk) 06:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

what is the effect of temp on ABG ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.31.246.223 (talk) 18:24, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

merge proposal
There seems little in the new Oxygenation (medical) which is not more thoroughly covered in this article, Medical section. PamD (talk) 16:06, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No, rather do it the other way: Split off the medical section into Oxygenation (medical). --Matthiasb (talk) 11:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * First of all, Oxygen saturation and oxygenation are two completely different subjects:
 * Oxygen saturation refers to the percentage of binding sites on hemoglobin molecules that are saturated by oxygen molecules. Oxygenation occurs when oxygen enters a fluid (e.g.)
 * Oxygenation occurs when oxygen molecules enter the tissues of the body. For example, blood is oxygenated in the lungs, where oxygen molecules travel from the air and into the blood.
 * So clearly the articles shouldn't be merged as they are entirely different topics. Therefore, I'm going to take the merger proposal down. I cleaned up the oxygenation article. Most of its previous material was either blatantly wrong or very highly dubious and neither has any citations for verifiability. Dgf32 (talk) 07:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I have just moved the environmental material to Oxygenation (environmental), following the 2007 suggestion above. The remaining (medical) material surely needs to be merged with that in Oxygenation (medical) somehow, under an appropriate title. Wwheaton (talk) 07:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm going to switch the info from Oxygenation (medical) and this one, and also add an intro and link to Oxygenation (environmental), too. This article is basically the medical one with a different name. Any objections let me know. Silenceisgod (talk) 22:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I am commenting on the comment above saying that oxygen saturation refers to the percentage of binding sites on hemoglobin which is true but it also refers to in the world of Aquaculture the concentration of oxygen in water. E. Theodore Breedlove. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.53.97.171 (talk) 06:30, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Section titled "Oxygen dissolved in leaf"
This looks like raw filler, not punctuated, utter gibberish. It should be either drastically edited by someone knowledgeable --- if indeed there is any content there, or simply deleted.

PhuDoi1 (talk) 03:07, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Future Work
I would love to work on this wiki page sometime. There is a lot of information missing regarding oxygen saturation, particularly coming from an oceanography perspective. My biggest question is where do you get the symbol S O 2 for oxygen saturation? I've never seen that before, so I assume it's a physiology term? As a chemist however, I can't help but read it as SO 2 (aka sulphur dioxide). If it's alright, I'd like to add a bit to the article over the next little while. Klcaroly (talk) 21:29, 27 September 2017 (UTC)