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ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS MADE EASY
A.B.Anup, MD
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Chapter		Contents	Page

		Abbreviations	8

Section I		Basics of Blood Gas Analysis	9 to 38

	1.	Introduction	11
	2.	SaO₂ v/s PaO₂	12
		Pulse Oximetry	13
	3.	Hemoglobin oxygen dissociation curve	16
		Causes of shift of this curve	17
	4.	HCO₃ and Base excess	18
	5.	PaO₂	19
	6.	PaCO₂	23
	7.	pH	26
		pH v/s hydrogen ion concentration	27
	8.	A-aDO₂	28
	9.	PaO₂, SaO₂ and CaO₂	31
		Carbon Monoxide poisoning	32
	10.	Basics of reading an ABG report	34

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Chapter		Contents	Page

Section II		ABG reading made easy	39 to 62

	11.	Respiratory acidosis	41
	12.	Metabolic acidosis	43
		Concept of Anion gap	44
	13.	Respiratory alkalosis	50
	14.	Metabolic alkalosis	52
	15.	Mixed acid base disorders	54
	16.	Miscellaneous	57

Section III		Exercises	63 to 84

	17.	Post test	65
		Simple disorders	65
		Mixed acid base disorders	71
		Alveolo-arterial oxygen gradient	76
		Oxygen content of the blood	78

Section IV		Summary	85 to 93