Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Become familiar
with common acid-base terms and definitions
- Identify
the techniques used to obtain blood samples for blood gas measurement.
- Identify
ABG values and their normal ranges.
- Discuss the
mechanisms of acid elimination by the kidneys.
- Identify
the different buffer systems found within the body.
- Differentiate
between respiratory and metabolic disorders, their symptoms, and
their common causes.
- Identify
acid-base imbalances and appropriate interventions.
Introduction
The maintenance of a stable acid base balance is a vital component
of the body's homeostasis. Over one hundred diagrams, nomograms, equations,
and sets of rules have been introduced to represent acid base balance.
Far from solving a problem, this diversity has probably contributed
to it because so many new terms and definitions have been introduced.
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