LUNG FUNCTION AND ACID-BASE BALANCE IN THE NEWBORN INFANT

Lung function and acid-base balance in the newborn infant.

Medical Acid-base Balance

an increase in the number of poisonings occurring in the province or from an increase in the number of enquiries with no change in the number of poisonings. (ii) there was an increase in 1976 in the number of prescriptions dispensed and therefore an increase in the number of drugs consumed. (iii) the increase in enquiries about poisoning in children, if it reflects an increase in actual poisoni...

Acid base balance and anesthesia.

The acidosis that occurs during clinical anaesthesia was formerly thought to be metabolic in origin because of inefficient carbohydrate breakdown in the unconscious state (Van Slyke, Austin, and Cullen, 1922). More recent authors (Taylor and Roos, 1950; Beecher and Murphy, 1950) have suggested that the acidosis is respiratory, due to defective ventilation, and the present work was undertaken to...

Acid-base Balance in Sweat

The reaction, the osmotic pressure, and the volume relationships of the body fluids are closely dependent on the properly regulated acid-base equilibrium. We have attempted to work out some of the regulatory mechanisms for the preservat.ion of acidbase equilibrium during the process of heavy sweating in ways analogous to those employed in the many similar studies of blood and urine. The changes...

Acid-base balance and respiration.

The subject of acid-base balance has become one of increasing complexity over the past two decades. Along with better understanding of the processes involved has come an array of confusing terms and ideas that leaves most physicians completely bewildered. For example, in a recent article on acid-base balance, the author listed six commonly used chemical definitions of the words "base" and "acid...