Without blood gas analysis or pulse oximetry, managing ventilation and oxygenation is difficult and increases the risk of patient harm. — Whalespan
Without blood gas analysis or pulse oximetry, managing ventilation and oxygenation is difficult and increases the risk of patient harm.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“so you can't measure a patient's pao2 or pac2 and yet your anesthetist has to figure out how to ventilate which again means how much oxygen the person needs and how much CO2 you take off and if you screw either of those two up you will kill someone right and if you told me to walk into Mass general or NYU or pick your favorite hospital and said Peter we're going to do everything for you we're going to intubate the patient we're going to do this all you have to do is be the guy that manually ventilates them I wouldn't be able to do that like I would I would overdo it or underdo it there's no way you'd hit that sweet spot yeah you'd cause an alkalosis you would just and then to be able to not have the laboratory tools to know when you're off the rails right yeah in those days we didn't have a p socks now at least we have a pck symmet which can measure the percent oy saturation blood that time we had no pul socks”