Physiological Acid Base Balance
Abnormalities of the pH of body are frequently encounter
and are of major clinical importance. Acedemia and alkalemia refer respectively
to an abnormal decrease or increase in the pH of the blood. Acidosis and
alkalosis refer respectively to clinical state that can lead to either acedemia
or alkalemia.
However in each condition the extent to which there is an actual
change in pH depends in part on the degree of compensation which varies in most
clinical disturbances. It is most convenient to evaluate clinical disturbances
of pH by reference to HCO3– – H2CO3
System.
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