Download MBBS ABG and Acid Base Disorders Lecture PPT

Download MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) Latest ABG and Acid Base Disorders Lecture PPT


Applications of ABG

To document respiratory failure and assess its severity.

To monitor patients on ventilators and assist in

weaning.

To assess acid base imbalance in critical illness.

To assess response to therapeutic interventions and

mechanical ventilation
ABG EQUIPMENT

Blood gas analyzers use electrodes to determine pH,

partial pressure of carbon dioxide and partial pressure of

oxygen in the blood.

It consist of three electrodes measuring pH, pCO2 and pO2

at 37 degree

It may also measure electrolytes like sodium, potassium

and chloride.

From these outputs, internal computers calculate oxygen

saturation, base excess and bicarbonate level.


Case Study

1. Sheela aged 19 years brought to casuality at 11 AM with

dizziness, tingling of fingers, sweating, breathing heavily and

nausea. O/E: Hyperventilation, carpopedal spasm was found.

Laboratory data:
pH

7.55

Pco2

20 mm Hg

HCO3

24 mmoles/l

1. What kind of acid-base disorder is this girl suffering from?

Explain.

2. What are the common causes of this kind of disorder?
3. Give the compensatory mechanism available in the body to

correct this sort of acid-base imbalance.

1. Respiratory alkalosis (uncompensated)
Tingling of fingers and carpopedal spasm is due to

reduction in ionized calcium caused by increased

binding of calcium to albumin in alkaline pH of ECF.

2. Common cause of respiratory alkalosis is functional

hyperventilation due to anxiety disorders.

It also occurs in cases where the respiratory center in

medulla is over stimulated as in encephalitis,

intracranial surgery, salicylate poisoning and chronic

liver disease
3. In respiratory alkalosis, there is loss of CO2 leading to

decrease in pCO2 and increase in bicarbonate to

carbonic acid ratio.

In an attempt to return the pH towards normal, kidney

excrete more bicarbonate in urine so that bicarbonate

-carbonic acid ratio is brought back to normal
2. Ramakrishnan, 60 years old, a known smoker

attended casuality with exacerbation of bronchial

asthma. The acid base analysis report is given below.

Give your interpretation.

Laboratory data:
pH

7.04

Pco2

90 mm Hg

HCO3

24 meq/L
Respiratory acidosis
Asthma attack are characterized by episodes of airway

obstruction leading to retention of CO2, leading to

increase pCO2,decreased bicarbonate to carbonic acid

ratio.

Renal compensatory mechanisms tend to retain

bicarbonate in the blood which in turn help to raise the

bicarbonate-carbonic acid in order to attain 20:1 ratio so

that normal pH is restored.

Generally respiratory acidosis is caused by disorders that

interfere with respiratory activity- pneumonia, asthma,

pulmonary edema,COPD

Morphine and barbiturate poisoning cause of depression

of respiratory centre leading to respiratory acidosis.
A woman complaining of intractable vomiting suspected of

suffering from pyloric stenosis receiving treatment showed

following acid base data on day 1 and day 2.

Laboratory data on day 1:
pH

7.6

pCO2

40 mm Hg

HCO3

35 meq/L

Laboratory data on data 2 :
pH

7.55

pCO2

45 mm Hg

HCO3

28 meq/L
Kumaran,58 year old peon in a private firm has been suffering from DM for the past 20

years. He was taking irregular treatment for DM. One day he was brought to the

casuality in a stuperosed state. O/E: Fruity odor in breath, Kussmaul's type of breathing

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Laboratory data
Urine Rothera's Test ? Positive
Plasma Glucose- 450 mg/dl
ABG analysis report
pH

7.2

pCO2

40 mm Hg

HCO3

15 meq/L

Na



140 mmol/L

K

4 mmol/L

Cl

102 mmol/L

1. What is the problem diagnosis? Explain.
2. Calculate the anion gap from given laboratory data?
3. What is the value of normal anion gap?

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