However, in a critical setting, a patient with a normal pH, a high CO 2, and a high bicarbonate means that, although there is a high carbon dioxide level, there is metabolic compensation. As a result, one must be careful as to not artificially adjust breaths to lower the carbon dioxide.
Looking at your data you might be thinking how you compare to the human average reaction time. Here it is! The average reaction time for humans is 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus, 0.17 for an audio stimulus, and 0.15 seconds for a touch stimulus.
In brief: There is no average. Recovery for every patient is different, and depends on their physical demands and expectations. Human biology, however, is fairly constant. Biologically, you are 90% recovered at 6 weeks, 98% recovered at 3 months. Some time between then and 1 year, you forget you had a hip replacement. You are then 100% recovered! In brief: There is no average. Recovery for every patient is different, and depends on their physical demands and expectations.