What Is Respiratory Acidosis?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
5. Acute Respiratory Acidosis
Unlike the chronic version of the disease, acute respiratory acidosis will develop very quickly. The symptoms can progress to become very severe and it can pose a very real threat to the patient’s life if it is not treated in time. It should always be treated as a medical emergency.
This occurs because the changes in the acidity of the patient’s blood have been sudden. This means that the kidneys and other organs have not had time to adjust to the higher levels of CO2 in the blood. There are numerous potential reasons that this might happen, some of which can be very dangerous in themselves.
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