#452: MMM - COPD 50-50 Club

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

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Let's start your week strong with a quick tip you can incorporate right away. In this Mo's Monday Minute shortie episode, I'm talking about the 50-50 Club in COPD patients and how to know when you need to quickly intervene. ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! All Straight A Nursing Resources - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including free resources and online courses to help you succeed! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.9	In this shorty episode, we're talking about a term you might hear thrown around in the clinical
1:35.8	setting, and that is the 50-50 club. So what does this mean? So when you hear someone say, oh, Bob's in the 50-50 club, this is a way to
1:49.7	describe patients with advanced COPD who often live with chronic gas exchange abnormalities.
1:56.9	So in the case of your friend Bob, the ABG may show a PAO2 around 50 millimeters of mercury and a PACO2 around 50 millimeters of mercury.
2:08.9	This simply means that if Bob is in this special club, that we're not going to get crazy excited if his numbers come back on his ABG in that range because that's where he is
2:19.0	all the time. This actually probably means our good friend Bob is actually doing okay.
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