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Title: Calculating Total Oxygen carrying capacity of blood Post by: shadowneko003 on Feb 17, 2012 Hi,I'm having trouble calculating the total oxygen carrying capacity of blood. We're using sheep blood.
I know that the equation is Total gram Hb in blood = blood volume (in 100ml) x hemoglobin concentration (g/100ml of blood) Total O2 = total grams Hb in blood x 1.34ml O2/g Hb Average sheep weight is 125lb = > ~56.81 kg blood volume per body weight = 56.81 x 8% = 4.54mL per body weight for sheep How would I find hemoglobin concentration? I also counted RBCs of the sheep blood. |