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Actually it's not that simple - and a pulse oximeter cannot diagnose hypercapnia. It's not that your O2 is 70, so your co2 must be 30. Your O2 can appear high and you can still have hypercapnia, which is why the gold standard for diagnosing it is an arterial blood draw.
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Isn’t the ABG very painful?
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Thank you for the help. He has not had any attacks or hypcernia for a few weeks now. The problem now is that I think he may be dying. I don't know. He sleeps all the time, turns down food when I offer it to him and he is drinking almost next to nothing. I am having hospice coming in this week sometime to evaluate him. I hav never been around a person that is dying so I may be way off base, but his behavior is definitely different. When he is awake, he is very confused. I want to call an ambulance, but he has told me that he wants to die at home. What a scary time this is.