Respiratory alkalosis is when a client with pneumonia may hyperventilate in an effort to increase oxygen intake. Blood gas is used to diagnosis tool to evaluate the partial pressure of gas in blood and acid base content.
It can be obtained from anywhere in circulatory system. An arterial blood gas tests explicitly blood taken from artery and patients partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2) and carbon dioxide ( PaCO2).
PaCO2 is effected by hyperventilation and acid base status. Arterial blood gases are frequently ordered by emergency medicine, intensive and pulmonology clinicians but also needed in other setting. There are many disease are evaluated by using ABG which includes acute respiratory distress syndrome.
