A patient with severe kyphoscoliosis and chronic ventilatory failure with hypoxemia will have all of the following laboratory findings, EXCEPT:
a. increased PaCO2.
b. increased hematocrit.
c. normal pH.
d. increased pH.
D
In a patient with chronic ventilatory failure with hypoxemia, the PaCO2 will be increased with a normal pH because of metabolic compensation. Because of the chronic hypoxemia, the body compensates by increasing the hematocrit (and hemoglobin).
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