RT Journal
T1 ACidosis y alcalosis en la clínica
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD January 28
VO 112
IS 4
SP 361
OP 361
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800040079042
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800040079042
AB In this book the author studies the acid-base equilibrium, both normal and pathologic. The book is divided into three parts, which deal respectively with the normal acid-base equilibrium from biochemical and physiologic angles, the various types of acidosis and alkalosis and their pathogenesis, and the treatment of the various types of acidosis and alkalosis which are observed by practitioners of internal medicine, clinical surgery, pediatrics, urology, gynecology and several other medical specialties. Special reference is made to the treatment of grave conditions caused by the rupture of the acid-base equilibrium which have to be rapidly controlled by introduction, in the blood, of a radical the amount of which is insufficient in the blood plasma, such as, for instance, rechloridation in alkalosis from hypochloremia and administration of injections of sodium chloride solutions in the course of Addison's disease and of calcium in hypocalcemia in tetany. The subject, on the whole, is