Acid Base Disorders - ABG Interpretation - slides for RT Students
Content
- Describe how the lungs and kidneys regulate volatile and fixed acids
- Describe how the kidneys and lungs compensate for each other when the function of one is abnormal.
- Explain how renal absorption and excretion of electrolytes affect acid-base balance.
- Classify and interpret arterial blood acid-base results.
Reference
- Arterial Blood Gases Made Easy Second Edition Iain A M Hennessey
- Masoro EJ, Siegel PD: Acid-base regulation: its physiology and pathophysiology, Philadelphia, 1971, Saunders.
- West JB: Respiratory physiology: the essentials, ed 9, Baltimore, 2011, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
