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Acid Base Disorders - Formulas for appropriate metabolic and respiratory compensation

- Dr Amith Sreedharan - Consultant
Acid Base Disorders ... - Formulas for ... #Compensation #Formula ... Diagnosis #Nephrology #AcidBase
To improve the usefulness of the serum creatinine concentration as a marker of kidney function, prediction
predict GFR, these formulas ... commonly used formulas ... are shown in Table ... Neither formula ... #Calculation #Formulas
Prediction of Compensatory Responses on Simple Acid-Base Disturbances

#acidbase #compensation #metabolic #respiratory #diagnosis #calculations #formulas #acidosis #alkalosis
on Simple Acid-Base ... Disturbances #acidbase ... #calculations #formulas
Approach to Acid Base Disorders - Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
1) Start with the Anion Gap (AG).
2)
Approach to Acid Base ... with the Anion Gap ... than expected based ... Generally, for acid/base ... done by using formulas
Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as
correctly diagnose a case ... that any given case ... implies being able ... #Calculation #Table ... #PPV #NPV #Formulas
Acid-Base Disorders - Expected Compensation Equations

Metabolic Acidosis:
 • pCO2 = 1.5 x HCO3 + 8 ±
Acid-Base Disorders ... ± 2 (Winter’s formula ... ↓ 4 #Acid #Base ... #AcidBase #Disorders
Mean arterial pressure (MAP)

A common method used to estimate the MAP is the following formula:
* MAP
arterial pressure (MAP ... to estimate the MAP ... the following formula ... : * MAP = DP + ... blood will not be able
Table 1. Equations for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in adults based on serum creatinine concentration*.
#Diagnosis
Table 1. ... eGFR) in adults based ... #Calculation #Formulas
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)

Average arterial pressure throughout one cardiac cycle, systole, and diastole. 
Surrogate indicator of
Arterial Pressure (MAP ... MAP = [Cardiac Output ... Pressure (CVP) MAP ... Common formula: ... often titrated based
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
MAP = CO x SVR
Hypovolemic (↓ Intravascular volume):
 • Hemorrhage, dehydration due
Diagnosis Framework MAP ... other findings based ... Differential #Diagnosis #table ... #comparison #criticalcare