Arterial blood gas

Question 1 According to Mrs Brown’s clinical manifestations it can be diagnosed that she has pulmonary oedema. Congestive heart failure happens when the heart is unable to pump blood productively causing the backup of blood, which increases the blood pressure and causes fluids to collect in the alveoli in the lungs which leads to pulmonary oedema. According to the clinical manifestations Mrs Brown had an increased heart rate of 120 beats/minute, the increased heart rate is the heart beating…

Examination of Ventricular Septal Defects and Arterial Aneurysms According to Maternal Child Nursing Care, 5th Edition, Chapter 47 – Cardiovascular Dysfunction, congenital heart defects occur in about 5 to 8 of every 1000 live births, and 2 to 3 of those affected will be symptomatic within the first year of life (Hockenberry, 2014). When looking at the different pathophysiologies of congenital heart defects, the most common form of defect is the ventricular septal defect or VSD and there are…

are already critically ill. The germs in the hospital are also more dangerous than that in the community. Case Presentation This is a 59 year old causation male who was admitted in hospital with a non-ST-segment myocardial infarction and a chronic arterial fibrillation. One of the risk factors for Hospital Acquired Pneumonia is alcoholism, and the patient was an alcoholic.…

intestinal tract nearest to the obstruction and the existence and severity of ischemia. The cause of small bowel obstruction include hernias, adhesions within the abdomen and tumors. The lumen near the obstruction fills with a massive amount of fluid and gas. The obstruction keeps water and electrolytes from properly absorbing. As a result, buldup of fluid occurs in the intestinal lumen from the vascular space. With small bowel obstruction distention occurs instantly. The distention is…

difficulty maintaining spontaneous ventilation. This will also protect the airway from potential aspiration. Continuous oxygen therapy at 100% to help improve the patient’s hypoxia. Intravenous fluid therapy would also be initiated to help increase blood pressure and cardiac output. It is also necessary to warm the patient up using warming blankets, a Bair hugger, or warmed IV fluids if available. 2. Due to the possibly of co-ingestion…

was below 7. Acidosis, a declining blood pH, is an indication the levels of acid in your blood are too high and there is weakened Hb oxygen bonding. This would be considered a medical emergency because the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood increases as the blood pH decreases. [2] Respiratory alkalosis would be considered an imbalance in pH due to alveolar hyperventilation. Alveolar hyperventilation leads to a decreased partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide (PCO2). [3] When…

Jones. Mr. Jones appeared to be in distressed. He is now using his accessory muscles to breathe, crackles are heard on auscultation and there is decreased air entry in the left and right bases. Chest X ray revealed consolidation on the left lower lobe and atelectasis in the right lower lobe. After a series of investigation in the emergency department, Mr. Jones was commenced on Normal Saline at 125 mls/hr and he was given oxygen via non rebreather mask at 10L/min. He was then transferred…

fell at home and was taken to the ER. She was dehydrated and intravenous fluids were given to rehydrate her. An arterial blood gas (ABG) was drawn. The results of the ABG showed an acid-base disturbance. The patient’s acid-base disturbance was acute metabolic alkalosis. This is the most common disturbance in hospitalized patients (Thomas, 2016a). This was based on her arterial blood gas (ABG) results as well as the patient’s clinical presentation. Her pH was 7.5 (normal range 7.35- 7.45) which…

Introduction Critical care laboratory mostly handles the whole blood specimen, which includes the arterial and venous blood gas sample from emergency, trauma, and operational department. These departments order the stat sample, which should be resulted within 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time of collection. Monitoring the total time of processing blood gas samples is consider as turnaround time (TAT). Various factors delay the TAT and are control by the laboratory personnel including the…

cannula placed in the right femoral vein to extract a patient’s blood, and a arterial cannula placed into the right femoral artery for infusion. Veno-venous is another method used which requires a cannula in the right common femoral vein for extraction…