#88 Acid base, boy bands, and grandfather clocks with Joel Topf MD
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Dissect an Abg and Get as Much Information Out of It as Possible
The difference is not the pH between those two differences The difference is the disease Right, so the abg tells you what the pH is but it doesn't tell you anything about the patient you need to be Use the abg Blood gas As a diagnostic tool as a way to get to a diagnosis And then you can figure out what you need to do if it's a seizure You just need to wait they're going to get better on their own if it's methanol It's not too late. I always think of it as kind of like an archaeologic dig and you start at the top and you start to dig down deeper and deeper.
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