Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) analysis
Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast
Dr. Mike Todorovic
4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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"ABGs are easy as 1,2,3!!"
In this episode Dr Matt and Dr Mike explain how to read an arterial blood gas (ABG) report and help determine whether a patient has a respiratory or metabolic based acidosis or alkalosis. They also look at some complex mixed cases and explain some easy ways to determine what's going on?!
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| 0:00.0 | A, B, G's, with a pH of 7.3, it's maybe respiratory. |
| 0:06.0 | Or could it be your kidneys with metabolic acidosis? |
| 0:10.0 | Ah, Jesus. Hey, |
| 0:29.6 | Hey, Hey everyone. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to Dr. Matt, Dr. Mike's medical podcast. |
| 0:45.9 | Today we're talking about ABGs, which stands for arterial blood gases. |
| 0:51.6 | Last episode, we introduced acid and base, and we spoke about acid-based balance, |
| 0:57.1 | and we introduced different types of acidosis and alkaloses, respiratory and metabolic based. |
| 1:04.5 | Today we're going to go into a little bit more detail and talk about the types of tests that we |
| 1:08.9 | can perform, and these tests are called arterial blood gas tests |
| 1:11.6 | where we can determine whether a patient has some form of acidosis or some form of alkalosis. |
| 1:19.0 | So before we begin, Maddie, firstly, you been okay? |
| 1:21.7 | I've been wonderful. |
| 1:22.7 | Anything new? |
| 1:23.2 | Do you like my singing? |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.4 | That's all right. |
| 1:27.1 | You need the singing, the pitch is good, the tone is fine, you just need to learn how to rhyme. |
| 1:32.5 | See, I could even rhyme in just then. |
| 1:35.3 | All right. |
| 1:36.6 | So, let's introduce ABG, shall we? |
| 1:40.2 | So an arterial blood gas is an analysis, and this analysis is used to measure pH, and not just |
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