In obstetric patients, compensated respiratory alkalosis and hypocapnia are common.
Pregnancy typically causes an increase in respiratory rate. There is a greater carbon dioxide exhalation as a result of the faster respiratory rate. Alkalosis is the result of a dip in carbonic acid caused by the reduced carbon dioxide level. The body substitutes bicarbonate with hydrogen ions for carbonic acid as a compensatory strategy.
The body successfully restores the pH in a fully compensated blood gas anomaly. Unless a disease manifests, patients in the geriatric, pediatric, and middle-aged adult populations have normal ABG levels.
<h3>Is respiratory alkalosis a serious condition?</h3>
Hyperventilation is a subsequent disease to respiratory alkalosis. The most common causes of hyperventilation are insults like hypoxia, metabolic acidosis, pain, anxiety, or an increase in metabolic demand. Although respiratory alkalosis itself is not fatal, the underlying cause might be.
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