The following is a summary of “Partial pressure of carbon dioxide/pH interaction and its association with mortality among patients mechanically ventilated in the emergency department,” published in ...

Arterial blood gas measurement is a standard way to initiate and monitor Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in acute hypercapnic respiratory Failure. It is painful for patients and time and resource ...

A proper understanding of the terms acidosis, alkalosis, acidemia, and alkalemia is necessary to differentiate simple from mixed acid base disorders. Acidosis and alkalosis refer to the ...

A large multi-centre study has made an important finding about the relationship between hypercapnia (high carbon dioxide or CO2) in the blood of patients with acute brain injury and hospital mortality ...