A 60-year-old female patient has been admitted to the emergency department with the following ABG results:
belongs to book: ABG PRACTICE QUESTIONS|Respiratory Therapy Zone|| Chapter number:1| Question number:7
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belongs to book: ABG PRACTICE QUESTIONS|Respiratory Therapy Zone|| Chapter number:1| Question number:7
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This is just a classic ABG interpretation question. You likely won’t see many of these on the TMC Exam because at this point, the NBRC will assume that you already know how to interpret ABGs. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have made it this far.
With that said, you still absolutely MUST know how to interpret them because you will be required to do so for SEVERAL questions on the exam.
So let’s go ahead and break this one down. The pH is increased which means that alkalosis is present. The PaCO2 is in the normal range and the bicarb level is increased. So this ABG can be interpreted as metabolic alkalosis, which means that the correct answer is C.
The correct answer is: C. Metabolic alkalosis
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