title: Making sense of blood gas results.
abstract: Recent technologic advances have allowed the production and marketing of cage-side blood gas analyzers to private practitioners. The widespread use of cage-side portable blood gas analyzers in veterinary practices has increased the need to develop the basic skills of blood gas analysis as part of a tool kit for practicing veterinarians. Rapid expansion of emergency and critical care medicine as a specialty and increased numbers of veterinary emergency and veterinary specialty practices have occurred concurrently with the availability of blood gas analyzers that are affordable for private practitioners. As a result, evaluation of blood gas results is no longer an activity confined to academic institutions and has become a daily part of many practicing veterinarians' activities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, 601 Vernon L. Tharp Street, Columbus, OH 43210-1089, USA. bateman.36@osu.edu
authors.forename: Shane W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Bateman
mesh_terms: D000138:Acidosis / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D000471:Alkalosis / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D000818:Animals; D001784:Blood Gas Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000662:veterinary*; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002415:Cats; D003422:Critical Care; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis; D004285:Dogs; D008297:Male