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Acid-Base Disorders

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The Common Causes of Acidemia and Alkalosis

emails describe the pH changes in the blood. So acidemia and alkalemia whereas osis so alkalosis or acidosis expresses the disorder. Now can we turn towards some of the common causes of these disorders? Yeah so starting with our respiratory disorders a respiratory acidosis usually means you have a buildup of too much carbon dioxide meaning you have decreased ventilation. Here you'd want to think about things that can cause hypovinolation such as obstructive or restrictive lung diseases, obesity,. Hypovinolation syndrome - central causes of hypovinolated are decreased respiratory drive and neuromuscular disorders. And here we also have another subdivision which are anion gap acidosis and are non

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