The following two questions are related to the same clinical…
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The fоllоwing twо questions аre relаted to the sаme clinical scenario (patient). A 56 year-old patient was admitted to the emergency department, confused and with respiratory distress. The respiratory rate was 20 breaths per minute. The O2 saturation via pulse oximetry on oxygen at 2L/min via nasal cannula was 91%. An arterial blood gas was obtained and resulted as: 7.34/44/68/20/89%. The AGACNP calculates the expected A-a gradient to be 16.5, given the patient's age. The AGACNP then calculates the A-a gradient to be 79.7, based on the clinical data. Considering the above, the AGACNP concludes that:
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