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I was looking to find the person, or person's name who invented this little piece of equipment. I was doing a little study work, and someone had said his name was Robert Auld. Can someone shed some light on this? thank you.
I generally support the merge proposal. Alternatively, I'd be happy with a system that more sensibly separated the technique of an arterial draw (which could be used for non-blood gas reasons) from the blood gas numbers/test interpretation. Finally, I really, really want the red-and-blue "Note" boxes in the other article to go away. (BTW, I'm not watching either of these pages.) WhatamIdoing 22:56, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Nice job on the merge! I took a swing at the lead, trying to clarify a few things:
Hope that isn't all too drastic, comments and corrections welcome of course! Cheers, Basie ( talk) 21:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
The article opens with "An arterial blood gas (ABG) is a blood test that is primarily performed using blood from an artery", is it just me, or is this a given? Surely, by definition an ARTERIAL BLOOD gas must be performed using blood from an artery.
The same analysis can be performed using blood from a vein, but it becomes a venous blood gas. Dlegros ( talk) 21:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Reading through this article again, is it worth mentioning or linking to Allen's test?
I note the comments in the merge section above regarding Wiki not being a "how-to" guide, but feel that it would be appropriate.
Any thoughts? Dlegros ( talk) 22:16, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I changed the table a substantial amount as arterial blood gas interpretation is beyond the scope of a small table in a single article. Further talk about interpretation of arterial blood gases could probably be included in acid-base homeostasis, however, a tutorial on ABG interpretation is certainly beyond the scope of Wikipedia -- many great tutorials exist and are linked. Another change is to make sure we have our '-osis'es and '-emia's straight. Acid/alkalemia refer specifically to the change in pH. It is possible to have acid/alkalosis in the absence of an abnormal pH. I removed phosphate from the table as it does not really come into play in arterial blood gas interpretation. The statement on lactate was also removed, though I think with significant revision it could be reintroduced. To clarify, lactate electrodes are common on blood gas analyzers because arterial samples are ideal samples from which to measure lactate -- and because lactate is directly interlinked with hypoxemia and acidosis ( lactic acidosis) which are also measured with arterial blood gases. It's not a neonatal-only thing, it's fairly common in many critical care areas. Wrin ( talk) 15:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
I came looking for an explanation of the t in tCO2, which I found: total CO2 (tCO2 (P)c) = the total amount of CO2, and is the sum of HCO3− and PCO2 by the formula: tCO2 = [HCO3−] + α*PCO2, where α=0.226 mM/kPa, HCO3− is expressed in millimolar concentration (mM) (mmol/l) and PCO2 is expressed in kPa but there's no specific definition of PCO2 elsewhere in the article. Opbeith ( talk) 12:18, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I also came looking for what was meant by the terms pCO2 and pO2 but found that these terms are used on this page with no explanation as to what they are - this article assumes knowledge to that extent.-- 194.73.101.212 ( talk) 11:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Arterial blood gas's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "southwest":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 18:45, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Thr role of Poul Astrup in inventing and developing a practical machine for mesuring pH on small samples of blood cannot be under-estimated. He won the Nobel Prize for it, and all machines since work on his principle. He needs to be included in any article on Blood Gas Analysis. Can anyone write about him? 81.134.153.82 ( talk) 20:58, 9 October 2012 (UTC)9/10/12
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