A patient has gone to a physician not feeling good and his blood values show a pH of 7.4, PCO2 of 40 mmHg and 24 mEq/L HCO_3. Is the PCO2 high, low or normal? What is the average quantity of blood contain in an adult?
Arterial blood gas (ABG) showed pH 7.26, pCO2 21 mmHg, pO2 111 mmHg, and HCO3 9 mEq/L, revealing an anion gap and metabolic acidosis with compensatory respiratory alkalosis. Initially, the patient was treated with aggressive fluid management, IV antibiotics, and sodium bicarbonate; however, ...
In general, the normal carbonates form preferentially at temperatures less than 200 ◦C given sufficient pCO2/mole fraction of CO2. With insufficient amounts of CO2, the hydroxycarbonates are generally preferred regardless of temperature. As previously mentioned, the normal carbonates of the lighter ...