{"id":163,"date":"2011-10-27T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=163"},"modified":"2011-10-27T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:22:53","slug":"are-arterial-and-venous-samples-clinically-equivalent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Are arterial and venous samples clinically equivalent&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are arterial and venous samples clinically  equivalent for the estimation of pH, serum bicarbonate and potassium  concentration in critically ill patients?<br \/>\nanother study on VBG vs ABG, I am sure in ED we almost agreed that a lot of ABG could be replaced by VBG but still among our consultant, this is not as clear as for us. this study <!--more-->was published in Diabetic Medicine 2011, and their conclusion is &#8220;A <strong>venous blood sample<\/strong>, analysed on a blood gas machine, is sufficiently  reliable to assess <strong>pH<\/strong>, <strong>bicarbonate and potassium<\/strong> concentrations <strong>in  critically ill patients<\/strong>, suggesting that venous sampling alone is  appropriate in the management of diabetic ketoacidosis.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1464-5491.2011.03390.x\/abstract\">Link to Diabetic Medicine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21781155\">PUBMED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are arterial and venous samples clinically equivalent for the estimation of pH, serum bicarbonate and potassium concentration in critically ill patients? another study on VBG vs ABG, I am sure in ED we almost agreed that a lot of ABG could be replaced by VBG but still among our consultant, this is not as clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}