Statement:A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN CRITICAL CARE UNIT SELECTED HOSPITAL, LUCKNOW Introduction: Arterial blood gas analysis is a basic and useful laboratory test for the critically ill patients. It an essential investigation assessing ventilation, oxygenation acid base status among The...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life threatening complication of many infectious diseases like malaria, H1N1, bacterial pneumonia, and leptospira. Malaria an important treatable cause ARDS. ARDS can develop either at initial presentation or after initiation treatment when the parasitaemia falling patient improving. 58 year old female presented with high grade fever breathlessnes...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the impact of arterial blood gas (ABG) on morbidity and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients undergoing CABG surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS The records for 75 COPD patients who underwent elective CABG surgery our institution clinic between November 2008 to 2011 and had a forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)/forced vital ca...

the acid-base status and arterial blood gas change with temperature variation. to determine the changes in arterial ph and pc02, arterial blood samples of 50 neonates with different clinical conditions were examined at temperatures of 35 to 42°c with an increment of 0.5° c, which resulted in two nonlinear equations with perfect fit on data. the temperature correction factors of these equations,...

Prompt recognition and treatment of hypoxia is an important part of management in the accident and emergency (A & E) department. Until recently the only reliable method of detecting hypoxia was by estimation of the arterial blood gases (ABG). Continuous monitoring of the arterial oxygen saturation (Sao2) is possible using an infra-red pulse oximeter. This study assessed the usefulness of this i...

conclusions in samples stored in plastic syringes, overestimation of pao2 levels should be noted if samples cooled before analysis. in samples stored in plastic syringes, it is not necessary to store samples in iced water when analysis delayed up to one hour. results pao2 of the samples stored at 0°c was increased significantly after 60 minutes (p = 0.007). the paco2 of the samples kept for 30 ...

Objective: To determine the correlation of mean pH, HCO3 and CO2 between arterial venous blood specimens in critically ill patients.
 Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
 Place Duration Study: Department Chemical Pathology Endocrinology, Armed Forces Institute (AFIP), Rawalpindi, from Apr to Oct 2015.
 Methodology: Forty patients admitted Intensive Care Unit were selected. Analy...

The diagnosis and management of hypoxemic respiratory failure is part of the daily routine of anesthesiologists, intensivists, and respiratory therapists. However, identification of some pathological states can be challenging, and failure to rapidly diagnose them can lead to inappropriate therapeutic decisions with expensive and potentially severe adverse consequences. These decisions can range...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The incidence of cerebral hyperperfusion and hypoperfusion, respectively, resulting from hypercapnia and hypocapnia in hospitalized patients is unknown but is likely underrecognized by radiologists and clinicians without routine performance of quantitative perfusion imaging. Our purpose was to report the clinical and perfusion imaging findings in a series of patients conf...

conclusions: the effects of propofol on hemodynamics and arterial oxygen pressure during one- or two-lung ventilation were not different from those of isoflurane. results: sixty patients (mean age = 4124.18 ± 18.63 years) were divided into two groups. the age and gender of the subjects were not statistically different between the two groups. in the propofol group, the arterial oxygen pressure d...