Abg Tocil -

They ran it to the blood gas analyzer. Two minutes later, the results printed:

“Yes. But look at her CRP and IL-6 from this morning. They’ve tripled.” Maya scrolled through the chart. “She’s not just fatigued. She’s in a cytokine storm.” abg tocil

“Tocilizumab calmed the storm,” Maya said, writing antibiotics orders. “But it also let her body feel well enough to breathe hard against the vent. Without that second ABG, we’d have missed the VAP until she crashed.” They ran it to the blood gas analyzer

PaCO₂ 68 PaO₂ 55 HCO₃ 24 Lactate 3.1 ” Maya said