Gas Goblin: Case #34
The Bottle Under the Sink
A 39-year-old man presents intoxicated after drinking rubbing alcohol. He is vomiting but haemodynamically stable.
- ABG
- pH: 7.39 (7.35 – 7.45)
- pO₂: 100 mmHg (75 – 100)
- pCO₂: 40 mmHg (35 – 45)
- HCO₃⁻: 24 mmol/L (22 – 26)
- SaO₂: 99 % (94 – 100)
- Na⁺: 140 mmol/L (135 – 145)
- K⁺: 3.8 mmol/L (3.5 – 5.5)
- Cl: 100 mmol/L (95 – 110)
- Ca: 1.2 mmol/L (1.12 – 1.3)
- Lactate: 1.5 mmol/L
- Glucose: 6 mmol/L (4 – 8)
- Urea: 7 mmol/L
- Creatinine: 90 μmol/L
- Osmolarity: 340 mOsm/L
- COHb: 1 % (0.2 – 2)
- MetHb: 1 %
- fiO2: 0.21
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