If a patient has a CO2 level of 60 percent is that critical?

Answer 1

I spoke with my husband who is a Doctor and we both agreed that monitoring your patient at this time would be prudent as they are most likely going into respiratory acidosis. The 60% is not quite a critical value but worthy of monitoring as it could be related to respiration rate and other factors. He would need more information but with what your provided, keep monitoring, run labs, especially PH levels and look at the whole patient to determine why this is occurring and how you can best help the patient.

HTH

DanniDonkey

Nursing Student