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01/21/08 - 04:03 AM

ABG 7.38/ 37/ 75
EMPHYSEMA/ BRONCHITIS
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01/21/08 - 09:52 AM

EMPYSEMA BLUE BLOATER

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kpmle2
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01/21/08 - 12:00 PM

RX 135 wrote:
EMPYSEMA BLUE BLOATER

emphysema will be pink puffers.

Ivonne
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01/21/08 - 12:04 PM

Do we assume that 37 is pCO2 or HCO3 and 75 is pO2. Would love to answer your Qs if you would write a few more details...

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01/21/08 - 12:48 PM

Ivonne wrote:
Do we assume that 37 is pCO2 or HCO3 and 75 is pO2. Would love to answer your Qs if you would write a few more details...

i guess, ABG - pCO2, not HCO3
But you are right, takes too much effort to understand what would that mean... smiling face

also option bronchitis - she wans to compare COPD emphysema predominant vs bronchitis predominant or COPD vs acute bronchitis or what?

Edited by hero on 01/21/08 - 01:02 PM

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01/21/08 - 02:11 PM

ok, if you want to distinguish btw COPD - emphysema predominant or bronchitis predom - it is emphysema (pink puffers), and if acute broncitis vs emphysema (COPD) - it's emphysema

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01/22/08 - 10:25 AM

can we really make out difference between the two on the basis of given information??
i think if one give information regarding the PAO2...alveolar, we cud still think.

or even DLCO...cud have had helped.

PFTs can also help.

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