Synchronous Session Reflection on Respiratory and Metabolic Acidosis and Alkalosis

Running head: SYNCRONOUS SESSION REFLECTION 1
Synchronous Session Reflection
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SYNCRONOUS SESSION REFLECTION 2
Concept 1
Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis
Acidosis and alkalosis describe the abnormal conditions that result from the imbalance in the
blood ph. caused by excessiveness of an acid or a base. According to Dee (2015), such
imbalance is caused by underlying conditions of a disease. As far as it concerns, the normal
blood ph. must be maintained within the confines of a narrow range particularly 7.35-7.45 so that
the proper functioning of the metabolic processes is enhanced and that the delivery of the right
amount of oxygen to the body tissues is facilitated. It is interesting to recognize the fact that there
are usually causes of having acidosis and alkalosis, the body responds differently according to
the need and the loss. There could be respiratory acidosis which could also be similarly referred
to as reduced CO2 elimination. It is likely to be caused by decreased rate of breathing because of
the drugs and sometimes the central nervous system disorders, it could also be because of
impaired lung movement and breathing, a nervous respiratory muscle disease and air way
obstruction. On the other hand, respiratory alkalosis or what we refer to as a situation when there
is increased elimination of CO2 could also occur. This could be because of drugs like an overdose
in aspirin pulmonary congestion or pneumonia, exercising, fever and failure in the functioning of
the liver (Batlle et al., 2017)
Concept 2
Metabolic acidosis and alkalosis
Metabolic acidosis simply suggests that there is reduced hydrogen carbonate because of the loss
of bicarbonate or increased acid in the body system. Some of the contributing factors according
to Yasuda et al. (2016) that may contribute to the above phenomenon is alcoholic ketoacidosis,