Dilutional Acidosis

1 March 1990

journal article
research article
Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal

Vol. 83 (3) , 354-355
https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-199003000-00029

Abstract

Rapid, extreme expansion of the extracellular fluid with solutions devoid of acid or alkali theoretically can produce a metabolic acidosis, due to buffer dilution. This phenomenon has previously been demonstrated only in experimental animal studies. We have required what we believe to be the first documented case of hypobicarbonatemia and metabolic acidosis consequent to massive saline infusion, other causes having been excluded.

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DILUTION ACIDOSIS
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1948