Expanding the role for umbilical cord blood gas analysis – a clinical study

An instructive case study report of electrolyte and acid-base disturbance

An aid for interpreting blood gas results in acid-base disturbance

Is it acceptable to use venous rather than arterial blood for blood gas testing of trauma patients?

The downside of oxygen therapy examined in critically ill children

Should bicarbonate be used to treat metabolic acidosis?

Pregnancy is associated with significant anatomical and physiological change in order to both accommodate and sustain the developing fetus. As this literature review article written by two Australian obstetricians makes clear, pregnancy-associated physiological change affects the blood concentration of a range of...

One of the utilities of arterial blood gas analysis (BGA) is to assess patient blood oxygenation status. The two principal parameters generated during BGA that allow this assessment are: partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood (pO₂(a)) and the percentage of functional hemoglobin in arterial blood that is...

Arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis allows full assessment of patient acid-base status predominantly via the following three parameters generated during the analysis: arterial blood pH; partial pressure of carbon dioxide in arterial blood pCO₂(a); and concentration of bicarbonate (HCO₃) in arterial blood. Two of these...

Arterial blood gas analysis has two clinical utilities: assessment of blood oxygenation status and assessment of acid-base status. Assessment of acid-base status depends on measurement of pH and partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO₂) in a sample of arterial blood using electrodes housed in the blood gas analyzer,...