Arterial blood gas test. An arterial blood gas test (ABG) is a blood gas test of blood taken from an artery that measures the amounts of certain gases (such as oxygen and carbon dioxide) dissolved in arterial blood. An ABG test usually involves a radial artery puncture using a thin needle and syringe and drawing a small volume of blood, but sometimes the femoral artery in the groin or another site is used.
Containment lead to American administrations accepting a status quo with the Soviet Union and admitting to each having their own sphere of influence in the world. Containment lead to pointless bloody police action wars and spread false hopes over the Eastern Bloc via Radio Free Europe.Case in point: Hungary 1956.ontainment lead to American administrations accepting a status quo with the Soviet Union and admitting to each having their own sphere of influence in the world. Containment lead to pointless bloody police action wars and spread false hopes over the Eastern Bloc via Radio Free Europe.
Definition of containment for English Language Learners : the act of preventing the spread of something : actions that are intended to keep an unfriendly government from getting more power