“Yes. But look at her CRP and IL-6 from this morning. They’ve tripled.” Maya scrolled through the chart. “She’s not just fatigued. She’s in a cytokine storm.”
Maya nodded, palpating the patient’s radial artery. The woman—Letitia—was tachypneic, using accessory muscles, her eyes wide with air hunger. Maya inserted the needle, and dark red blood filled the heparinized syringe. Whew. One pass. abg tocil
Maya’s intern, Jake, was already there, holding a blood gas syringe. “Her saturations dropped to 82% on BiPAP. The team wants an ABG before deciding on intubation.” “Yes
“Tocilizumab calmed the storm,” Maya said, writing antibiotics orders. “But it also let her body feel well enough to breathe hard against the vent. Without that second ABG, we’d have missed the VAP until she crashed.” “She’s not just fatigued