Does anyone know the normal values for an ABG for carbon monoxide levels in the body?
or what is too high after an exposure?????? What does one blood gas reading at 5.4 and another at 2.9 mean? How high or low is that really?
This was blood gases done after a structure fire exposure and explosion. Neither of us are smokers, we were doing patient care on one of the victims in the front yard after pt was drug out when pts oxygen exploded in the front bedroom that we were in front of and fire and smoke went through the front of the house where we were at. We were not able to move pt any further at that part. time and got hit pretty hard with the smoke.
Your question is wrong, there is venous blood gases and arterial blood gases …..see below
Management of Burn VictimsThe most common type of airway injury is carbon monoxide poisoning, … These people could have normal arterial blood gas levels, a normal chest X-ray, …
uuhsc.utah.edu/burncenter/emergencycare/management.html – 21k – Cached – Similar pages
There really is no "normal" value for carbon monoxide levels. Rather there are safe or typical levels. Smokers run higher (for obvious reasons). In the reference I have < 9% is listed as "normal".
normal would be like 0 to 2. 5.4 is probably a smoker, 2.9 probably is too