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What Is The Level Of Carbon Dioxide In Blood That Is Fatal?
Hello Sir. My grandmother (aged 75) is admitted in the hospital because of a chest infection. Her carbon dioxide levels have been increasing continuously. Right now, it is 170 mEq/L. We are really worried, the doctors have suggested us to not go for an incubator as that will simply mean postponing what her death, as she cannot be cured now. I wanted to know the threshold limit of this carbon dioxide level, i.e., at what level this becomes extremely dangerous and leads to death? Thanks for your help.
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Normal level of co2 in blood is 23-29mEq/L. Retention of co2 in blood is known as hypercapnea and it suggest that lung are not able to remove the co2 and going into the failure.
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