To define "steady-state" chronic hypercapnia in man, we studied 20 patients with stable carbon dioxide tensions from 34 to 103 mm of mercury and with no apparent complicating disorders. The whole-body ...

All solutions of dissolved salts contain equal numbers of dissociated positive and negative charges. This simple principle was used by the Boston physiologist James L Gamble as a means of analyzing ...

The acid-base composition of plasma during hypocapneic anesthesia in man has been used to construct a 95 per cent significance band defining the acute steady-state response to reduced carbon dioxide ...