Venous Versus Arterial Blood Gas Sampling in Undifferentiated Emergency Patients

Launched by UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, LINKOEPING · May 26, 2020

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== Practical procedures \& flowchart ==

Patients included in this study are treated according to clinical routine. After inclusion, sampling of an arterial blood gas and a venous blood gas is performed simultaneously or as close in time as possible. Because the venous blood gas analysis sample can be taken directly from the patient's peripheral venous catheter, no additional venous puncture is usually required and the additional amount of blood that may be required is approx. 1 ml (the assay requires about 500 µl). In the very rare cases where it is not possible to establish a peripheral v...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients able to understand and process oral and written information and give his/her consent (within 12h), or consent provided by a close relative.
• • Aged \> 18 years
• • Assessed to be in need of arterial blood gas analysis
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Unwilling to participate, or unable to understand the provided information
• • Inability to give subsequently consent (\> 12 hours) or unwillingness by close relative to provide consent.
• • Pregnant
• • Aged \< 18 years