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Chapter Ten : Acid-Base Physiology

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Do You Have a Problem With a Blood Gas Calculated by Carbon Dioxide?

The total CO2 is slightly higher than the bicarb? Yes because of that. Because you're not only measuring what the the CO2 from the bicarbonate it's some of the CO2 in the blood but it's significantly different. So someone has a pCO2 like 80 or 100, their chemistry CO2 level should be about three points higher than their calculated bicarbonATE on a VBG or AVIDG. And so like doing the math here JC like really bad respiratory acidosis. You got... I think I only be three points higher.

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