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Pseudometabolic acidosis |
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pseudometabolic acidosis A lab artifact seen when vacuum blood collection tubes–eg, Vacutainer™ are underfilled with blood, resulting in falsely ↓ bicarbonate value, falsely ↑ anion gap
Pseudometabolic acidosis
Amount of blood in 10 ml tube 1 ml 3 ml 10 ml
Bicarbonate mmol/L, unvented tube 21.7 19.4 16.3
Bicarbonate mmol/L, vented tube 23.3 20.3 17.3
Anion gap mmol/L 16.7 17.5 19.2
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