fictiondurden
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What is the difference between normal acid/base status and fully compensated acidosis or alkalosis? Thanks!
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| sturge_weber
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normal acid base status is when the pco2 =40, po2 =90-100, ph=7.35-7.45
fully compensated means , say someone has a hyperventilation, his pco2 decreaases, he gets respiratory alkalosis, say pco2= 25, now body wants to compensate by metabolic acidosis, so it loses the hco3- in the urine, nomal value is 22-28, now it becomes 16. and when u do the ph, it is exactly normal, ie b/w 7.35-7.45
this is called fully compensated respiratory alkalosis
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