Comments on: Yesterday’s case http://www.medrants.com/archives/3496 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: david http://www.medrants.com/archives/3496/comment-page-1#comment-520337 david Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:09:02 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3496#comment-520337 Intended to say "chronic respiratory acidosis" not chronic respiratory alkalosis" in my response above. Intended to say “chronic respiratory acidosis” not
chronic respiratory alkalosis” in my response above.

]]> By: david http://www.medrants.com/archives/3496/comment-page-1#comment-520333 david Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:08:27 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3496#comment-520333 One thing to note here is not to treat this patient with BiPAP as he is already alkalotic with a pH of 7.46. Doing so could lead to an acute rise in the blood pH and possibly lead to a seizure. Once the metabolic alkalosis is corrected with the Diamox or KCl then BiPap could be used. As has been stated already, this man likely has a chronic respiratory alkalosis with a superimposed contraction (metabolic) alkalosis from Lasix diuresis. thanks One thing to note here is not to treat this patient with BiPAP as he is already alkalotic with a pH of 7.46. Doing so could lead to an acute rise in the blood pH and possibly lead to a seizure. Once the metabolic alkalosis is corrected with the Diamox or KCl then BiPap could be used. As has been stated already, this man likely has a chronic respiratory alkalosis with a superimposed contraction (metabolic) alkalosis from Lasix diuresis. thanks

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