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awywial

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Your supervisor asks you to recalibrate the blood gas analyzer. Given the data below, what partial pressures of carbon dioxide and oxygen should be used to standardize the instrument?
 
  Barometric Pressure = 767 mm Hg
  Carbon dioxide tank = 10 CO2
  Oxygen tank = 20 O2
  A) CO2 = 81.4 mm Hg; O2 = 162.8 mm Hg
  B) CO2 = 72 mm Hg; O2 = 144 mm Hg
  C) CO2 = 76.7 mm Hg; O2 = 153.4 mm Hg
  D) CO2 = 119 mm Hg; O2 = 191 mm Hg
  E) CO2 = 153.4 mm Hg; O2 = 76.7 mm Hg

Question 2

True or false? Arterialized blood is always an acceptable alternative to arterial blood providing you warm up the puncture site before obtaining the specimen.
 
  A) True
  B) False



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: B

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Ans: B





 

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