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Blood Gas IV

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During hypothermia in cardiac surgery, anesthesiologists and perfusionists are faced with an important question—should one correct blood gases to patient’s temperature (pH stat) or not (α stat)?

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, UTMB, Galveston, TX, USA

    Ranganathan Govindaraj MD, FRCA (Associate Professor for Anesthesia and Pain, Director)

  2. Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA

    Ranganathan Govindaraj MD, FRCA (Associate Professor for Anesthesia and Pain, Director)

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Correspondence to Ranganathan Govindaraj MD, FRCA .

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  1. Alliance Health Midwest, Midwest City, Oklahoma, USA

    Tilak D. Raj

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Govindaraj, R. (2017). Blood Gas IV. In: Raj, T. (eds) Data Interpretation in Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55862-2_39

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