The Emergency room cyanotic
A 24-year old student on the 6- year undergraduate plan is brought to the emergency room cyanotic and profoundly weak. His roommate has just returned from a semester in Africa. The patient had been observed admiring his roommate’s authentic African blowgun and had scraped his finger on the tip of one of the poison darts (curare).
•Electrolytes and ABG results:
•Na = 138
•Cl = 100
•pH = 7.08
•HCO3– = 26
•CO2 = 80
•pO2 = 37.


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