Blood Gas Interpretation
The blood gas is used to rapidly assess ventilatory function and identify acid-base disorders – and will also generally provide point-of-care testing of a number of values such as electrolytes, blood glucose and haemoglobin.
Tag VBG
Acid-Base and Blood Gas interpretation
Acid-Base Library: Blood gas analysis and interpretation
OSCE: Clinical teaching
OSCE 15: VBG Teaching. OSCEs done by recent fellows at a high level to provide an example of a good pass and additional advice on providing a framework to answer the scenarios.
VBG versus ABG
Reviewed and revised 7 January 2016 OVERVIEW Venous blood gases (VBG) are widely used in the emergency setting in preference to arterial blood gases (ABG) as a result of research published since 2001 The weight of data suggests that venous pH…