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Metabolic acidosis
Primary disorder
pH
Compensatory response
Predicted compensation
Limits of compensation
decrease in HCO3
decrease
decrease in pCO2
Change in pCO2=1.0 to 1.5x in the plasma HCO3 concentration
10mmHg
High anion gap
High anion gap: Metabolic alkalosis. Metabolic acidosis: ketoacidosis, renal failure, methanol, ethylene glycol, salicylate, lactic acidosis..
Acid Gain (high anion gap) except HCL specific mechanism
-Incomplete fat oxidation (ketoacids
-Incomplete carbohydrate oxidation (lactic acid
-Gain of exogenous acid or toxins
Incomplete fat oxidation (ketoacids) exnamples would be
Diabetes, starvation
Incomplete carbohydrate oxidation (lactic acid) examples
Shock, sepsis, seizures
Gain of exogenous acid or toxin examples
1) Hydrochloric acid: NH4CI, arginine chloride, lysine chloride
2)Toxic alcohols: methanol, ethylene glycol, Salicylate
Normal protein metabolism
renal failure
Bicarbonate Loss
(Normal Anion Gap) leading to metabolic acidosis can occur in
Gastrointestinal HCO3 loss and Renal HCO3 loss
Example of

Gastrointestinal HCO3- loss
Diarrhea: loss of pancreatic, biliary, or intestinal secretions
Example of renal HCO3 loss
Proximal and distal renal tubular acidosis
High Anion Gap in summary can be caused by
Uremia
Ketoacidosis
Lactic acidosis
Salicylate toxicity
Methanol toxicity
Ethylene glycol toxicity
MUDPILES
Incomplete metabolism of Fat, no insulin, glucagon goes up and breaks up fat. Occurs in diabetes, starvation and prolongued alcohol intake
Ketosis
Mitochondria defect or O2 delivery to to mitochondria appropiately, incomplete carbohydrate metabolism
Lactic Acidosis
Protein metabolism problems. Renal failure, accumulation of sulfate and phosphate and urea cant be excreted. This happens in patients on dyalisys, HCO3 added to compesate
Uremia
Formic acid formation is titrated by HCO3 and gives severe acidosis, leading to blindness
Methanol toxicity
Metabolism of ethylene glycol to oxalic acid and glycolic acid leading to precipitation of Ca2+
Ethylene glycil toxicity
How to treat Ethylene Glycol intoxication?
give patient ethanol, which competes with ethylene glycol and do a dyalisis
How can we know if a patient has uremia or not?
creatine levels would be normal
How can we know is not ketoacidosis?
glucose levels would be normal, high glucose indicated ketoacidosis
Normal Anion Gap aka
Hypercholeremic acidosis because gap is normal. When this happens dont look for any of the acids tha cause high gap, instead this is caused by loss of HCO3. Seldom gained in Cl.
In normal anion gap where can the HCO3 be lost?
Kidney, GI, resection of illeum, diarrhea. Volume contraction occurs and Cl reab is enhanced leading to hyperchloremia
Metabolic Alkalosis
Primary Disorder
pH
Compensatory Response
Predicted Compensation
Limits of compensation
HCO3 goes up
pH goes up
pCO2 goes up
pCO2 should rise by 0.5-1x the rise in plasma HCO3 concentration
Metabolic Alkalosis can occur because
Acid loss
Bicarbonate Gain
Volume Depletion and Secondary
Hyperaldosteronism

Volume Expansion and Mineralocorticoid Excess
Renal acid loss examples
Mineralocorticoid excess (primary or secondary)
Diuretics
Distal delivery of a poorly reabsorbable anion with sodium (e.g., carbenicillin
GI acid loss examples
Gastric fluid loss
Intracellular hydrogen shift example
Potassium deficiency
Bicarbonate Gain example
Milk-alkali syndrome, administration of bicarbonate, citrate, or lactate
Volume Depletion and Secondary
Hyperaldosteronism
can occur when
Gastrointestinal origin (Urine Cl-  20 mEq/L)


Renal origin
(Urine Cl- > 20 mEq/L
Volume Expansion and Mineralocorticoid Excess can occur when
Low renin states (Urine Cl- > 20 mEq/L)


High renin states (Urine Cl- > 20 mEq/L)
Low renin states (Urine Cl- > 20 mEq/L) example
Primary hyperaldosteronism, Cushing's syndrome, exogenous mineralocorticoid
administration
High renin states (Urine Cl- > 20 mEq/L) can occur when
Renal artery stenosis, renin-secreting tumor
Respiratory acidosis
Primary disorder
pH
Compensatory response
Predicted compensation
limits of compensation
pCO2 incease
pH decrease
HCO3 increase
Acute: Plasma HCO3 concentration should rise about 1 for each increament of 10 in PCO2
Chronic: Plasma HCO3- concentration should rise by about 4 mEq/L for each increment of 10 mm Hg in PCO2
Acute limit: 32
Chronic limit: 45
Respiratory acidosis sites of action
Inhibition of
respiratory center
Disorders of respiratory muscle, nerves, chest wall
Upper and lower airway obstruction
Inhibition of
respiratory center
example
Patients who will not
breathe due to
Drugs: Anesthetics, ethanol narcosis, opiates, sedatives

Central nervous system lesions
Brain stem/high spinal chord lesion
Disorders of respiratory muscle, nerves, chest wall can occur in
Myasthenia gravis, poliomyelitis, kyphoscoliosis
Upper and lower airway obstruction can occur when
Pulmonary fibrosis

COPD
Respiratory alkalosis
primary disorder
pH
Compensatory Response
Predicted compensation
Limits of compensation
pCO2 decrease
pH increase
HCO3 decrease
Acute: Plasma HCO3- concentration should fall by about 2 mEq/L for each decrement of 10 mm Hg in PCO2, but usually not to < 18 mEq/L.

Chronic; Plasma HCO3- concentration should fall by about 5 mEq/L for each decrement of 10 mm Hg in PCO2, but usually not to < 12 mEq/L.

Acute; 18-20
Chronic; 12-15
Causes of respiratory mechanism
-Stimulation of
respiratory centers
-Stimulation of
peripheral chemoreceptors
-Stimulation of
intrathoracic receptors.
In all of these 3 the ventilation goes up
Stimulation of
respiratory centers can occur due to
Salicylate intoxication
Psychogenic hyperventilation
Hepatic cirrhosis
Brain stem lesions
Encephalitis
Pregnancy
Sepsis
Stimulation of
peripheral chemoreceptors can occur due to
Hypoxemia
Hypotension
Stimulation of
intrathoracic receptors examples
Restrictive lung disease
Pulmonary embolus
Pneumonia
Pneumothorax
Rules to diagnose ACID-BASE disorders
look at handout.