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.
A mid-level diplomat in the State Department named George Kennan proposed the policy of containment. Since the American people were weary from war and had no desire to send United States troops into Eastern Europe, rolling back the gains of the Red Army would have been impossible.