All You Really Need To Know To Interpret Arterial Blood Gases

Klappentext Today every ICU provides rapid and automated blood gas testing twenty-four hours a day. The emphasis in this handy manual on blood gases is on interpreting readings and wisely using the information derived. The self-testing questions and glossary make it particularly useful. The Second Edition includes patient scenarios! more figures! a revised bibliography! and pertinent Internet addresses. Zusammenfassung Every ICU provides rapid and automated blood gas testing twenty-four hours a day. This title is a manual on blood gases. It includes patient scenarios! figures! a revised bibliography! and pertinent internet addresses. Inhaltsverzeichnis What is meant by interpreting arterial blood gases? one blood sample! two machines; three physiologic processes! four equations; PaCO2 and alveolar ventilation; PaO2 and the alveolar-arterial PO2 difference; SaO2 and oxygen content; pH! PaCO2! HCO3 and acid-base status; putting it all together - cases with blood gas data to interpret; putting it all together - cases without blood gas data; putting it all together - free text interpretations of blood gas data; pitfalls in blood gas interpretation; quick-course on blood gas interpretation.

Product details

• Authors: MARTIN, Lawrence Martin
• Publisher: Lippincott
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2000
• EAN: 9780683306040
• ISBN: 978-0-683-30604-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine