Acute Respiratory Therapism - What's the Problem?

A, well, a respiratory therapis a looks a little askance at you when you suggest turning the affa to directly down hundred % to 21%. But, but he suggests maybe you could draw one now and then see how we get tight trating over the next little while. A, on a hundred percent oxygen, your blood gas is seven point four zero, with a p co two of 38, a a o two of 350, and a serum by carbonate of 22. Ok? So this is with the patient still ventilated, but on 21 % o well, yes. Let's plug in those numbers and see what we come up with here.