Abstract
Abstract. In two years 417 cases of AMI without pulmonary disease were treated in a CCU. During this period arterial blood gas samples were drawn by routine on the first day. The tape‐stored data from the first day at the CCU were compared to pH, standard bicarbonate (SB) and base excess (BE) values. Low SB, BE and pH values were associated with high mortality and also with a high incidence of hypotension, shock and frank pulmonary oedema during the first day. Left heart failure without frank pulmonary oedema showed no such relation. As regards various arrhythmias, left bundle branch block was more common in patients with low pH, SB and BE values. Supraventricular tachycardia was a more frequent finding in patients with low SB and BE values. High values of pH, SB and BE were not combined with an increased incidence of any arrhythmia.
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