CLINICAL SCENARIOS IN INTUBATION AND VENTILATION

     
   

 

     
      Clinical Scenarios 9

A 23 year old male is involved in a head on motor vehicle collision. He has a fractured pelvis, left femur, left tibia and right humerus. On the night following his admission he becomes severely confused, is hallucinating and assaults one of the nurses. The intern on call has the foresight to take a blood gas: his PCO2 is 25mmHg and his PO2 is 41mmHg on 40% oxygen..

 

       
   

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