title: [Practical approach to complex acid-base disorders using a slide rule].
abstract: Diagnosis of mixed acid-base disturbances is often difficult. Nowadays it depends on biochemical and statistical interpretation, coupled with clinical data. The acid-base slide-rule is a useful tool to carry out this five step procedure, which it simplifies, giving rapidly at the patient's bed-side an objective support for the diagnosis of acid-base disturbances.
mesh_terms: D000137:Acid-Base Imbalance / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001639:Bicarbonates / Q000097:blood; D001784:Blood Gas Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008297:Male; D010313:Partial Pressure
chemical_list: D001639:Bicarbonates
vernacular_title: Approche pratique des désordres acidobasiques complexes grâce à l'utilisation d'une réglette.