Respiratory Week 5

In which of the following would you expect to find hypercapnia and a reduced plasma pH?

• Hypoventilation

• Hyperventilation

In respiratory acidosis, the kidneys ___ excretion of HCO3- in an attempt to return pH to a normal range.

If ventilation increases with no change in metabolism, the following will occur:

• pCO2 will fall

  pO2 will rise

• pCO2 will rise

  pO2 will fall

• pCO2 will rise

  pO2 will rise

• pCO2 will fall

  pCO2 will fall

Ventilation is primarily controlled by the response to p___.

Which of the following would be expected in respiratory acidosis?

• Low pH

  High CO2

  High / normal HCO3-

• Low pH

  Low CO2

  Low / normal HCO3-

• High pH

  High CO2

  Low / normal HCO3-

• High pH

  Low CO2

  High / normal HCO3-