End-tidal CO2 is really good for monitoring tube placement and also good as a rough look at ventilation- but often it doesn’t correlate well with the blood gasses. Without those, you don’t really know the patient’s underlying acid-base status. A good guess would be she is tachypneic from a primary respiratory process. Another would be she was acidotic and compensating with her breathing. Or as someone else mentioned, a diffusion defect or shunting. Hard to know. But from your perspective transporting her, honestly just keeping her sats and in an acceptable range is fine- especially if her mentation intact. Sounds like you handled the situation just fine within your training.Oops. I Knew <35 was alkalotic. My bad mixing them up. ..... *sheepish grin*
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