
Episode 5 - Contraction Alkalosis
The Curious Clinicians
00:00
The Importance of Hydroxychloric Acid in Metabolic Alkalosis
One is red and angiotensin-aldosterone, that gets turned on in these volume-depleted states as a compensatory mechanism. That should also lead to retention of, or excretion of acid. And so they get metabolic alkalosis too. Because I think they're kind of over driving that distal acid excretion like you were talking about. Absolutely. No doubt about it.
Transcript
Play full episode