Innovations in technology: continuous intra-arterial blood gas monitoring.

This process provides real-time information about the patient's cardiopulmonary and metabolic status, while eliminating sampling errors, reducing healthcare worker exposure to blood, and decreasing the patient's iatrogenic blood loss.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Critical Care Nurse Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 19 - 28
Main Author: Dirks JL
Format: CEU exam questions tables/charts Journal Article
Published: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 1995 Apr
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