Open Access<p>Can Venous Blood Gas Be Used as an Alternative to Arterial Blood Gas in Intubated Patients at Admission to the Emergency Department? A Retrospective Study</p>
Author(s) -
Nikola Schütz,
Dominik von Roth,
Michael Schwameis,
M Röggla,
Hans Domanovits
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
open access emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1179-1500
DOI - 10.2147/oaem.s228420
Subject(s) - medicine , arterial blood , emergency department , venous blood , arterial blood gas analysis , pco2 , anesthesia , blood gas analysis , emergency medicine , nursing
Blood gas analysis plays an important role in both diagnosis and subsequent treatment of critically ill patients in the emergency department and the ICU. Historically, arterial blood is predominantly used for blood gas analysis. The puncture is painful and complications may occur. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the agreement between arterial and venous blood gas analysis and whether the sole use of venous blood gas analysis would have changed therapy.