Acid base Flashcards
List the symptoms of metabolic acidosis
- headache
- Decreased Bp
- Hyperkalemia
- muscle twitching
- Kussmaul respiration (compensatory hyperventilation)
- Nausea, vomitting, Diarrhea
What are the causes of metabolic acidosis?
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Severe Diarrhea (looses biocarbonate)
- renal failure
- shock
What is Mrs mitchells diagnosis?
Hyperchloremic (normal anion gap) metabolic acidosis
Complicated with hypovolemia (dehydration)
What are the medical results for someone with metabolic acidosis?
Low pH
HCO3- very low
pCO2 low
Hypokalaemia (plasma potassium level less than 3.5mmol/L)
What is the compensatory mechanism for metabolic acidosis?
compensatory hyperventilation = pCO2 low
What is Hypokalaemia?
(plasma potassium level less than 3.5mmol/L)
What is the name for Mrs mitchells condition the next day
Chronic respiratory alkalosis
Name the 3 compensatory mechanisms used by the body to handle PH changes?
- Physiologic buffer
- Pulmonary compensation
- Renal compensation
What are the the Physiologic buffers?
(weak acid and base salt or weak base and acid salt)
bicarbonate-carbonic acid buffering system,
• intracellular protein buffers,
• phosphate buffers in the bone.
What is the the Pulmonary compensation system?
changes in ventilation changes the partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide (PCO2) to drive pH towards normal range.
A drop in pH, results in increased ventilation to blow off excess CO2
An increase in pH decreases ventilatory effort, which increases PCO2 and lowers pH back towards normal.
What is the the Renal compensation system?
starts when other mechanisms have been ineffective, generally after about 6 hours of sustained acidosis or alkalosis.
• In acidosis, kidneys excrete H+ in urine and retain HCO3-.
• In alkalosis, kidneys excrete HCO3-and retain H+ in the form of organic acids.
What is the normal blood PH range?
7.35 to 7.45.
Describe the PH and PCO2 for respiratory acidosis
pH is less than 7.35 and PCO2 is above 45 mm Hg
What causes chronic and acute respiratory acidosis?
occurs secondary to a chronic reduction in alveolar ventilation -Chronic COPD
Acute- Over sedation, immobility, respiratory muscle paralysis
Which two factors determine arterial PH in respiratory acidosis?
What is the compensatory mechanism for resp-acidosis?
Relationship between PCO2 and plasma HCO3
Over a period of 1 to 3 days, renal conservation of HCO3- results in an increase in pH.