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Clinical Acid-Base Flashcards

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How would pH, HCO3- and pCO2 be affected in a metabolic acidosis?

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pH: decreased
HCO3: decreased
pCO2: decreased

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How would pH, HCO3- and pCO2 be affected in a metabolic alkalosis?

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pH: increased
HCO3: increased
pCO2: increased

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How would pH, HCO3- and pCO2 be affected in an acute respiratory acidosis?

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pH: decreased
HCO3: increased
pCO2: increased

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How would pH, HCO3- and pCO2 be affected in a chronic respiratory acidosis?

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pH: decreased
HCO3: very increased
pCO2: increased

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How would pH, HCO3- and pCO2 be affected in an acute respiratory alkalosis?

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pH: increased
HCO3: decreased
pCO2: decreased

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How would pH, HCO3- and pCO2 be affected in chronic respiratory alkalosis?

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pH: increased
HCO3: very decreased
pCO2: decreased

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Write the bicarbonate buffering equation

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H+ + HCO3- H2CO3 H2O + CO2

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What are the causes of respiratory alkalosis?

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Hyperventilation which may be caused by stress, exercise, septic shock, altitude, pregnancy and drugs such as salicylate and doxapram

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What are the compensatory mechanisms for respiratory alkalosis?

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  • H+ levels are increased due to decreased distal renal acid secretion
  • HCO3- levels fall due to increased proximal renal excretion of bicarbonate
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What are the causes of respiratory acidosis?

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Hypoventilation which may be caused by:

  • Loss of hypoxic drive (CNS dysfunction)
  • Restrictive chest wall abnormalities e.g. kyphoscoliosis, pneumothorax, obesity
  • Type 2 respiratory failure (hypoxia with hypercapnia) e.g. COPD or status asthmaticus
  • Myaesthesia gravis (neurological impairment of chest wall movement)
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What are the compensatory mechanisms for respiratory acidosis?

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Increased bicarbonate levels in order to buffer the excess H+ (produced due to equilibrium shift as a result of excess CO2 retention)

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What are the causes of metabolic alkalosis?

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Decreased H+ and/or increased HCO3- levels

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What may cause the reduction in H+ levels that leads to the development of metabolic alkalosis?

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  • Vomiting (loss of stomach acid/HCl)
  • Hypokalaemia; extracellular K+ falls and therefore potassium moves out of cells and into the blood, so to retain electroneutrality H+ moves out of the blood and into the cells –> plasma H+ fall
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What may cause the increase of HCO3- levels that leads to the development of metabolic alkalosis?

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Iatrogenic causes (drug-induced) such as antacids (contain bicarbonate)

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What are the compensatory mechanisms for metabolic alkalosis?

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Hypoventilation (to retain carbon dioxide)

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What are the causes of metabolic acidosis?

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Gain of H+ and/or decrease in HCO3-

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What may cause the increased H+ level that leads to the development of metabolic acidosis?

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  • Increased organic acid production e.g. lactate or ketones (elevated anion gap)
  • Reduced H+ secretion in the distal tubules due to renal failure
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What may cause the decreased bicarbonate level that leads to the development of metabolic acidosis?

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  • Diarrhoea
  • Renal failure causing an inability to reabsorb bicarbonate in the proximal tubules
  • Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (prevent the conversion of H2CO3 into the ionic form and therefore bicarbonate cannot be reabsorbed)
19
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What is the cause of a normal gap metabolic acidosis?

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Increased loss of bicarbonate leading to compensation via hyperchloraemia

20
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What are the causes of an elevated gap metabolic acidosis? (KUSMALE)

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Ketoacidosis
Uraemia
Salicyclate poisoning
Methanol
Aldehyde
Lactate
Ethylene glycol intoxication
21
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What is the main difference in terms of compensation between normal and elevated gap metabolic acidosis?

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In normal gap there is chloride compensation (hyperchloraemia) to retain electro-neutrality due to bicarbonate loss

22
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What is the physiologic pH value range?

23
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What is the normal pCO2 range?

24
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What is the normal pO2 range?

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72-104mmHg

25
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What is the normal bicarbonate concentration range?

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22-30mEq/L

26
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What is the normal oxygen saturation range?

27
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What is the normal anion gap range?

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12-16mEq/L

28
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What acid-base imbalance may result from profuse vomiting and why?

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Metabolic alkalosis due to loss of H+ from the stomach acid

29
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What acid-base imbalance may occur as a result of shock and why?

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Elevated metabolic acidosis due to the systemic vasoconstriction in shock leading to hypoxia and hypo perfusion of tissues and subsequently anaerobic respiration leading to lactate build up.

30
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What two drugs may induce hyperventilation?

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Salicyclates and doxapram

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