Accuracy of predicting arterial blood gases following mechanical ventilator adjustment

Making sense of arterial blood gases.

Arterial Blood Gases: A Simplified Bedside Approach

Interpretation of Arterial blood gases is an essence of critical care. It helps for the assessment of clinical oxygenation, ventilation and acid-base status in critically ill patients. The four closely inter-related physiological parameters pH, PCO2, HCO3 and PO2 helps to diagnose, monitor and manage the ICU patients. Its correct interpretation and application necessitates the knowledge of basi...

Interpreting arterial blood gases: easy as ABC.

The Accuracy of Predicting Compressibility Factor for Sour Natural Gases

This paper presents the initial stage of an effort aimed at developing a new correlation to estimate pseudo critical properties for sour gas when the exact composition is not known. Several mixing rules and gas gravity correlations available in the literature are first evaluated and compared. The evaluation is performed on a large database consisting of more than 2106 samples of sour gas compos...

Organophosphate Poisoning Predicting the Need for Mechanical Ventilator Support

Background: The easy availability and lack of legal strictures have made organophosphorus compound poisoning the deadly bane for the people of the lower socioeconomic strata, i.e., farmers and laborers. This study was conducted to predict the need for ventilator support in organophosphate poisoning and to identify the factors which help in predicting the need for ventilatory support in organoph...