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Review
. 2023 Jun;23(6):221-228.
doi: 10.1016/j.bjae.2023.03.002. Epub 2023 May 2.

The respiratory system and acid-base disorders

J Pippalapalli  1 , A B Lumb  2
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Review

The respiratory system and acid-base disorders

J Pippalapalli et al. BJA Educ. 2023 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: Respiratory acidosis; hypercapnia; respiratory alkalosis.

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Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1
Normal and abnormal ventilatory responses to hypercapnia. The solid green line shows the average response in a normal healthy subject, with the dotted section extrapolated back to the apnoeic threshold (B). The red line shows the same challenge in a patient with metabolic acidosis, showing the resting hyperventilation and hypocapnia from the acidosis, but with the same slope of the response to CO2. The fine blue lines show the same responses but in subjects with concurrent hypoxaemia, which increases the slope of the response.
Fig 2
Fig 2
Anatomical locations of abnormalities that may lead to alveolar hypoventilation. See Table 1 for examples at each location.
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