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Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Interpretation
 • AG/non-AG Metabolic Acidosis
 • AG Acidosis "Delta/Delta"
 • Metabolic Alkalosis
Arterial Blood Gas (ABG ... Interpretation • AG ... /non-AG Metabolic ... Acidosis • AG ... Interpretation #diagnosis
Purple Urine Bag Syndrome
Chronic, indwelling catheter + bacteriuria (Providencia, Klebsiella, E.coli*) + alkaline urine
Tryptophan → Indoxyl
Purple Urine Bag ... Purple #Urine #Bag ... pathophysiology #clinical ... #differential #diagnosis
Hypoxemia in Anesthesiology - Differential Diagnosis and Management 

Management: 

• increase Fi02 to 100% - verify!
- Differential Diagnosis ... and Management ... Management: ... • ambu-bag / O2 ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Potassium Electrolyte Repletion
If patient also has hypomagnesemia, replete magnesium before repleting potassium
Oral:
 • Pills (ask pharmacy
otherwise really big ... Solution (tastes bad ... Electrolyte #Repletion #management
Approach to Acid Base Disorders - Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
1) Start with the Anion Gap (AG).
2)
and Differential Diagnosis ... the Anion Gap (AG ... the change in AG ... Differential Diagnosis ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Approach to Selecting Respiratory Support:
-The role of noninvasive respiratory support is generally to reduce the patient's
normalize the ABG ... than monitoring ABG ... the patient's diagnosis ... failure), not the ABG ... #Management #CriticalCare
Modified Allen’s Test before doing a radial ABG #Clinical #Diagnosis #Allen #Test #RebelEM
doing a radial ABG ... #Clinical #Diagnosis
What's in a Blood Gas? VBG vs ABG

BOTTOM LINE: VBG is less painful, more easily obtained
VBG vs ABG BOTTOM ... obtained than ABG ... #EBM #Diagnosis ... #ABG #VBG #Differences
Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Analysis - Metabolic + Respiratory Acidosis + Alkalosis

pH ↓ pCO2 ↓ -
Arterial Blood Gas (ABG ... Arterial #BloodGas #ABG ... Interpretation #AcidBase #Diagnosis
Pulmonary Infections in HIV-AIDS
Bacterial: 
 • No organism identified, Strep pneumoniae, H. influenzae, S.aureus, Streptococcus Grp
DFA sputum, LDH, ABG ... , BDG, Serum Cryptococcal ... Ag, Urine Histo ... Ag, Respiratory ... HIVAIDS #workup #diagnosis