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Basic laboratory diagnostics Basic laboratory diagnostics
Blood gases and acid-base balance Blood gases and acid-base balance

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Respiratory
acidosis
Acidaemia (increased paCO 2 )
(decreased pH)

Diseases of the
respiratory tract Reduced
and surrounding minute volume
structures

â Respiratory acidosis â Metabolic acidosis
(increased paCO 2 ) (decreased HCO 3 ) Lung perfusion Pleural space Obstruction of the Respiratory muscle Respiratory centre
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disturbances disease respiratory tract dysfunction dysfunction

– Pneumonia – Thoracic – Tracheal – Botulism – Iatrogenic
– Oedema effusion collapse – Tetanus (e.g. anaesthesia,
– Neoplasia – Pneumothorax – Foreign body – Myasthenia gravis therapy with
– Haemorrhage – Diaphragmatic – Bronchial spasm – Polyradiculo- opioids)
– Fibrosis hernia – Airway neuritis – CNS disease
– Space- inflammation (e.g. neoplasia)
occupying
lesions in the
pleural space
(e.g. neoplasia)

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