Abstract
The problem is to differentiate the acute from the chronic, the respiratory from the metabolic, and the pure from the mixed acid-base disorder. Appreciation of the interdependence of hydrogen ion concentration, serum bicarbonate, and pCO2, expressible in a simple equation, facilitates the task. In most patients with a pure disorder, a change in one parameter will result in a distinctive and proportionate change in another.
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