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ArticleJournal of hospital medicine2025

Things We Do for No Reason™: Arterial blood gas testing to screen for hypercarbic respiratory failure.

Mary E Lacy, Lisa Saa, Zachary Bruss, Leonard Noronha

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Article in Journal of hospital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mary E LacyDepartment of Internal Medicine, University New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8823-173X
Lisa SaaDepartment of Internal Medicine, University New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Zachary BrussDepartment of Internal Medicine, University New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Leonard NoronhaDepartment of Internal Medicine, University New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Venous blood gases (VBGs) are safe and effective at screening for hypercarbic respiratory failure. Multiple studies have validated that a VBG with a PvCO

Indexed as

Blood Gas AnalysisHypercapniaRespiratory InsufficiencyCarbon DioxideHumansCarbon Dioxide

Identifiers

PMID40183604
PMCPMC12406756

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