Abstract: Abstract The arterial blood gas (ABG) provides information about a patient’s pH, oxygenation, and ventilation and can indicate whether an acid-base disorder is primarily metabolic, respiratory, or mixed. The four basic categories of acid-base disorders are respiratory acidosis, respiratory alkalosis, metabolic acidosis, and metabolic alkalosis. The anion gap (AG) is calculated from the difference in cations and anions and can be used to tailor a differential diagnosis based on the mechanism of the acid-base disorder. The lungs and kidneys affect acid-base disorders by compensatory mechanisms that must be considered during ABG interpretation. Additionally, the patient’s clinical history is important for further narrowing a differential diagnosis. Taken together, ABG interpretation can provide a concise differential diagnosis for a particular acid-base disorder.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-03-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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