TY - BOOK AU - Mahmoud Khalil Mahmoud Khalil AU - Hanan Elsayed Zaghla , AU - Nael Samir Ahmed , AU - Sally Salah Eldine Mohammed , TI - Venous - arterial PCO₂ difference as an early predictor of organ dystunction in the ICU / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mahmoud Khalil Mahmoud Khalil , KW - Delta PCO2 KW - Dysoxia KW - Shock N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - The early identification and scrupulous monitoring of tissue dysoxia can improve the management of critically - ill patients . In this light the final product of aerobe and anaerobe metabolism (that is carbon dioxide) can provide useful information on adequacy of tissue perfusion and metabolism (9.10). The aim of our study was to evaluate whether the venous-arterial PCO2 gradient provides useful information on tissue dysfunction in patients admitted to the ICU ER -