Medmastery: acid-base disorders
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting videos from their Acid-Base Essentials course.
In this video we explain the relationship between pH, HCO3 and pCO2 and a simple rule which will help you decide whether the primary problem is respiratory or metabolic in nature.
Further Reading
- Course: Acid-Base Essentials
- Acid-base disorders
- Assessing compensation
- Bicarbonate loss and acid overload
- Workshop: Acid-Base Essentials
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Rainer Oberbauer, MD MSc. Nephrologist. Chairman of the nephrology department at the Medical University of Vienna. | Medmastery |