Abstract
The first part of this two-part article (Clancy and McVicar, 2007) identified acid and alkaline buffers in the body fluids as the body’s short-term homeostatic mechanisms involved in maintaining the ‘acid-base homeostasis’ of body fluids. The second part of this article explores the respiratory and renal systems as the respective intermediate and long-term homeostatic mechanisms involved in maintaining acid-base homeostasis. It also discusses what happens if these mechanisms fail.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1016-1019 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | British Journal of Nursing |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 17 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2007 |