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Tag Blood gas
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Blood gas syringe

Blood gas syringe: used for blood gas analysis; collection of a blood sample for accurate analysis by a blood gas machine

an obscure acidosis…

The Case. 64 year old male attends your ED with a complaint for 3 months of progressive weakness, however over the past 7 days he has had multiples falls secondary to his ‘legs just completely giving way’.  You note on…

a poison puzzler…

the case. 23 year old female is bought to ED by her family after an intentional overdose of ~ 100 ‘diet tablets’ which she ingested 1.5-2 hours earlier.