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chandani

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Placing blood gas samples in an ice bath serves to do which of the following?
 
  a. Keep the specimen cold.
  b. Slow down in vitro metabolism.
  c. Allow the red blood cells to remain intact.
  d. Prevent the white blood cells from de-stroying the red blood cells.

Question 2

Excessive nasogastric suction will cause what type of acid-base disorder?
 
  a. Acute metabolic alkalosis
  b. Chronic respiratory acidosis
  c. Uncompensated metabolic acidosis
  d. Uncompensated respiratory alkalosis



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Chilling the blood specimen to below 5 C by placing the syringe in ice water can reduce the metabolic rate of the white blood cells. The ice bath does keep the specimen cold, but the pur-pose of keeping it cold is to reduce the in vitro metabolism rate.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
Nasogastric suctioning can cause an acute metabolic alkalosis.



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