Chapter 1. Acid-base fundamentals
- What's the pH value?
- Bicarbonate—the primary buffer
- The normal values and cutoffs
- The Henderson-Hasselbach equation made easy
- Compensation—the basics
- Why compensation is never complete
- A simple rule for identifying the type of acid-base disorder
- Acid-base fundamentals quiz
Chapter 2. Respiratory disorders—a short primer
Chapter 3. Metabolic acidosis
- Metabolic acidosis—the causes
- Metabolic acidosis caused by loss of bicarbonate
- What happens to Cl when HCO3 goes down?
- What happens to anions when acid is added?
- The anion gap—causes and calculation
- How to differentiate between bicarbonate loss and acid overload
- Adjusting the normal values of the anion gap
- The causes of anion gap acidosis
- Metabolic acidosis quiz
Chapter 4. Mixed metabolic disorders
- Introduction to mixed metabolic disorders
- What happens to bicarbonate when acid is added?
- The corrected bicarbonate and the acid-base algorithm
- Mixed metabolic disorders quiz