ABG Interpretation Walkthrough
ABG Interpretation Walkthrough - a deterministic tool in Sophie Well's Clinical Scoring & Risk group.
Open the ABG Interpretation Walkthrough → Runs in your browser. No signup, no tracking.
What this is
Walk a blood-gas tuple (pH, PaCO2, HCO3, and optionally PaO2 / FiO2) through the standard acid-base interpretation: primary disorder, expected respiratory or metabolic compensation, anion gap and delta-delta where labs allow, and ARDS Berlin P/F band when oxygenation values are supplied. Sophie Well returns each step explicitly so the reader can audit the logic.
When to use it
Use this at the bedside when a gas comes back and you need a structured walk-through before the team rounds, or as a teaching aid when training residents and students on acid-base. The output is interpretive math, not a treatment plan; mixed disorders, contributing drugs, and the clinical picture still drive the actual response.
References
Acid-base interpretation per standard physiology; Winter formula (metabolic) and Boston rules (respiratory; Narins RG, Emmett M. Medicine 1980;59:161-187) for expected compensation; ARDS Berlin definition for P/F bands.
Worked example: Metabolic acidosis with appropriate respiratory compensation
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