Iron Saturation %

Glad2behere · Feb 19, 2003

Are you talking about SaO2? Anything above 92 is generally ok with acceptable perfusion, unless an ARDS or COPD pt, they can have much lower. Make sure you don't have a low H&H, as a high SaO2 can be very deceiving.

Rena RN 2003, RN · Feb 19, 2003

i found this in my lab test book.......

"laboratory and diagnostic test with nursing implications" by joyce lefever kee, p. 268

iron, total iron binding capacity (tibc)

normal range for serum iron for an adult is 50-150 mg/dl (not miligrams either. ... it's that funny m thing and i can't think of the name of it right now. :chuckle )

TIBC is 250-450 mg/dl (again with the m thing)

elderly is 60-80 mg/dl serum iron and

average daily iron intake should be 10-20 mg (milligrams). TIBC measures the maximum amount of iron that can bind to the protein transferrin.

decreased levels of serum iron could be iron deficiency anemia, cancer of the stomach, intestine, rectum, breast; bleeding peptic ulcer; protein malnutrition; blood loss; burns.

decreased levels of TIBC could be hemochromatosis, anemias, hypoproteinemia, renal failure, cirrhosis, infections, GI cancers

drug influences could be cortisone preps, dextran, testosterone

elevated levels of serum iron could be caused by hemochromatosis, anemias, liver damage, thalassemia, lead toxicity

elevated levels of TIBC could be microcytic anemia, acute and chronic blood loss, polycythemia

drug influences could be from oral contraceptives

does this help?

Rena RN 2003, RN · Feb 19, 2003

MU?????? is it MU??????? that funny little m thing?

it's late. :chuckle don't hold my ignorance against me. :chuckle

christinemj · Feb 19, 2003

**iron saturation

serum transferrin saturation

transferrin iron saturation

transferrin saturation

serum iron to tibc ratio

**calculation

tfs = 100 x serum iron (ug/dl) / tibc (ug/dl)

**normal range:

15% to 55%

**decreased

-chronic iron deficiency anemia

-chronic infection

-advanced malignancy

-collagen-vascular disease

-uremia

-third trimester of pregnancy

**increased

-hemochromatosis and other iron overload

-hemolytic anemia

-starvation

-nephrotic syndrome

-cirrhosis

-acute viral hepatitis

-thalassemia minor

-megaloblastic anemia

-aplastic anemia or sideroblastic anemia

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this one is a foreign site... but it gives an explanation...........

http://www.svls.se/sektioner/sfkk/keynumb/a-483.htm

hope this helps!!!

memphispanda, RN · Feb 19, 2003

Thanks everyone! It was the percentage thingy that Christine gave. My patient's level was 5. I knew that it was probably low, but I didn't know how low!