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Chapter Ten : Acid-Base Physiology

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Is Your Bicarbonate Chain Changing Your pH?

The pH is giving you a sense of how well that buffering system is working. It's taking your bicarbonate normally is a 24 and you drop to 10 in really bad metabolic acidosisyou've made 14 milli equivalents of acid but because the bicarbonates buffer is so good your hydrogen ion concentration is only gone from 40 to 80 in nanomoles as opposed to the millimal like million times higher than the nanomole level of concentration change. And we're going to go through a bunch of examples of this which I think that to me was what was the most interesting of this chapter was the changes in the when he actually back calculated hey here's the change in

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