Utility of venous blood gases in severe sepsis and septic shock.

In conclusion, adequate correlation and agreement between ABG/pVBG, ABG/cVBG, and pVBG/cVBG comparisons was found only for pH. The current level of evidence does not support the use of venous blood gas sampling in this setting. PMID: 29904286 [PubMed]
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