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Chapter Ten : Acid-Base Physiology

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Do You Know How to Measure a Carbon Dioxide?

The venous blood sample is going to have a little bit different parts of the PCO2 as well than the arterial PCO2. When you do this 0.03 will apply by PCO2 calculation will push up the dissolves you to a little bit more. So yeah, this is why we get one or two more points in your BMP compared to the ABG. Remember a lot of the CO2 is carried by hemoglobin. The minute the oxygen hits that hemoglobin, it can go. It's no longer a good buffer. This is our indoor record. Are we putting this chapter to bed? I hope that's what I was thinking too. We're

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