Talk:Arterial blood gas

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I was looking to find the person, or person's name who invented this little piece of equipment. I was doing a little study work, and someone had said his name was Robert Auld. Can someone shed some light on this? thank you. Woohoo.

The oxygen electrode was invented by Leland C Clark, and the CO2 electrode was invented by John Severinghaus. Both inventions were made in the latter half of the twentieth century. I don't know who invented the pH electrode, but once you find that out you will have a full house, because the other blood gas variables are derived from O2 CO2 and pH. I don't know much about Clark, but Severinghaus is a giant of respiratory physiology and definitely deserves a biography if you want to write one. Fibrosis 17:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

I generally support the merge proposal. Alternatively, I'd be happy with a system that more sensibly separated the technique of an arterial draw (which could be used for non-blood gas reasons) from the blood gas numbers/test interpretation. Finally, I really, really want the red-and-blue "Note" boxes in the other article to go away. (BTW, I'm not watching either of these pages.) WhatamIdoing 22:56, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Delete of Arterial blood gas sampling - Wikipedia is not a technical manual nor a how to guide. Nor is wikipedia's purpose to service the training needs of professionals (irrespective of how good that training material might be), but instead it is a general encyclopaedia for the general public. The "notes boxes" are totally inappropriate instruction to readers (wikipedia does not instruct or give direct advise its readers). Only a very little of Arterial blood gas sampling would be appropriately incorporated into the section Arterial blood gas#Obtaining and processing the sample. Instead it should be placed either under a suitable section at Wikibooks:Health science bookshelf#Medicine, or probably better still at the Wikiversity of Wikiversity:School:Medicine. David Ruben ^Talk 03:59, 31 October 2007 (UTC)