Describes acid-base physiology and discusses the diagnosis and treatment of disorders associated with metabolic acidosis and metabolic alkalosis, as well as plasma potassium disorders. Metabolic ...

Maintaining a healthy acidic balance is crucial for homeostasis—the acid-base balance your body ... production or kidney ...

In addition to a potential value in the clinical setting the use of significance bands defining the responses to primary acid–base disturbances (respiratory or metabolic) would seem to ...

Usually nothing to worry about, lactic acid is produced as ... and lactic acidosis occurs when the buildup is enough to turn your body’s pH balance acidic. The liver and kidneys usually flush ...

Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely determined, but the most common explanation is a failure of the body’s buffering mechanisms which leads to metabolic (lactic) acidosis. It was ...