Respiratory acidosis or alkalosis?
alkalosis. Hyperventilation is breathing off the acid.
Acidosis or alkalosis help?
Acute respiratory acidosis. If she's only 67 it's possible but not likely to have reached the stage where there's chronic retention due to constricted airways on exhalation. In which case there would be compensation.
What are acidosis and alkalosis? How do they relate to the pH of blood?
Assume you have a normal pH range for blood. If the pH of the sample is below the normal pH range ("more acidic"), then you have acidosis (pH lower than normal) If the pH of the sample is above the normal pH range ("more alkaline"), then you have alkalosis (pH higher than normal)
What are the causes of acidosis and alkalosis?
Whole textbooks have been written on this.Acidosis = too much H+ ions, low pHCan be either metabolic, an acid having been ingested, or in kidney failure organic rests can’t be excreted; or respiratory, one due to respiratory disease (COPD, asthma) or too low respiratory drive (sedative overdose) not able to breath out CO2, which you should consider to be an acid, since combined with water H20 is is carbonic acid H2CO3, a weak acid.Alkalosis = too little H+ ions, high pH.Can be metabolic, the kidney making too much HCO3- (the alkaline part in the body’s main CO2 - HCO3- buffer system) often as an overshoot trying to compensate for a previous acidosis, or respiratory by people overbreathing (hyperventilating) thus lowering CO2, lowering the acid component of said main body’s metabolic CO2-HCO3- buffer.
Respiratory acidosis or alkalosis?
Normally it would lead to respiratory alkalosis, but remember blood gases are tricky if the Base Excess is off or the HCO3 is off then the metabolic side may outweigh anything the respiratory system can do
Respiratory acidosis or alkalosis?
Going to the mountains (higher Altitude) would lead to respiratory ALKALOSIS. The reason for this is that there is less oxygen at higher altitudes and the oxygen hunger would lead to hyperventilation thus decreasing the co2 which raises the ph making the blood alkalotic
How would acidosis and alkalosis of the blood affect our body if the initial pH cannot be restored?
Acidosis would lead to acidemia and if not corrected would cause headache, sleepiness, unconsciousness, shortness of breath, confusion, coughing, tachycardia, dysthymia, nausea, seizure, coma, death.Alkalosis uncorrected would cause confusion, dysthymia, electrolyte imbalance, tetany, seizure, coma, death.Blood pH either too high or too low impairs metabolic processes, can change the way some chemical reaction work in the body. pH conversely affects body temperature regulation. pH also affects the ability of hemoglobin to exchange O2 and CO2 from tissues to blood stream to alveoli.
What causes respiratory acidosis and alkalosis?
Basically it depends on how the alveoli are ventilated...as u knw they are site for CO2 release from body to outside..if they are hypoventilated ...less amt. Of CO2 released causing more H+ conc. In blood plasma..so followed by acidosis...probable causes are air qay ovstruction as in bronchitis..emphysemaĹungs diseases like fibrosi ..pneumonia.Neural disease..polyomyletis.paralysis of respiratory center..or extra pulmonary diseases like kyphosis,scoliosis.or cerebral trauma which depresses the respiratory center..ALKALOSIS.when alveoli are hyperventilated..not seen very often..as in high altitude..severe anemia...embolism..or some cerebral disturbances..or emotional trauma..THANK ULOVE AND GRATITUDE..
What are the main differences between acidosis and alkalosis?
Two totally opposing conditions:Acidosis too much H+ (acid) ions in solution, lower pH.Alkalosis too little H+ ions in solution, higher pH.In the human being the levels we compare it to is the concentration at a pH of 7.45–7.45, the physiological pH level.