Medical Acid Base Balance, Disorders & ABGs Explained Clearly

Illustrations explain acidosis, acidemia, alkalosis, alkalemia, ABGs, pH, and more. This is video 1 of 8 on medical acid base.

Other videos in the acid-base series cover the key points of anion gap, metabolic acidosis, metabolic alkalosis, respiratory acidosis, respiratory alkalosis, and include practice problems to test your understanding.

Speaker: Roger Seheult, MD
Clinical and Exam Preparation Instructor
Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.

MedCram: Medical topics explained clearly including: Asthma, COPD, Acute Renal Failure, Mechanical Ventilation, Oxygen Hemoglobin Dissociation Curve, Hypertension, Shock, Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA), Medical Acid Base, VQ Mismatch, Hyponatremia, Liver Function Tests, internal medicine, Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs), Adrenal Gland, Pneumonia Treatment, and many others. New topics are often added weekly- please subscribe to help support MedCram and become notified when new videos have been uploaded.

Recommended Audience: Health care professionals and medical students: including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, respiratory therapists, EMT and paramedics, and many others. Review for usmle, mcat, pance, nclex, naplex, ndbe, nbme, RN, RT, MD, DO, PA, NP school and board examinations.

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Produced by Kyle Allred PA-C

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[tyray]

Love your lectures. As a PA student undergoing a clerkship in the CCU your lectures have grounded me amongst all the madness...well, during nonclinical time that is.

Thank you for bring it all together.

[TheJNix]

MedCram and Khan Academy videos are the reason why I'm making it through pathophysiology in Paramedic school! Thank you

[kiaraw]

I have a clinical chemistry exam tomorrow and you just made an 1.5 hr lecture more understandable in 13 minutes. Bless you!

[lamer]

As a student in nursing school i have to say your videos are awesome - much better than the foreign language my instructors use when trying to explain this.

[Medcram]

See the whole series at www.medcram.com along with other top quality videos including reviews in pulmonary, cardiology, infectious disease, and hematology!

[caralosser]

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[lizjoe]

I've been a 'brittle' T1 Diabetic for 17 years. Through this time, I've gained a lot of understanding about the chemistry of the (my) body, but your videos have, and are, helping me understand a lot more. Thanks so very much. I'm a firm believer that it's easier to 'fix' things when we understand how they work, and why certain things are happening. Thanks again. DKA is probably the worst thing I've ever gone through. Hopefully this will help me from going through it again.

[hasibsb]

Thanks a lot. The video series helped me lot and it really demystified this tricky topic. The last vignette was a great lot challenging and informative. It showed that despite a normal pH, pCO2, HCO3 a pt. may have serious problem which can be figured out by the algorithm described here. Would like to see more such enjoyable lectures !! Knowledge increases when it is shared. Thanks again for this good job. Keep it up!!

[mansukhshah]

great presentation - no need for slides but clear logical step wise presentation does the job

[Unfun]

your ability to remember the processes within the processes (WITHIN THE PROCESSES) amazes me!

[gr]

Understanding Greek roots is very useful. -Osis from ōsis, means “process”. -Emia, hemato, from haimat, which means “blood”.

[a.]

thank you so much for the time you took to create these series!
I never thought that i would learn this acid base thing so perfectly !
thank you again !
Namaste

[nadia]

I just wanted to say thank you. You have given the best explanation. Chem has always confuse me, but you were crystal clear :) I will send this video to my fellow nursing students that are struggling to understand acids and bases.

[kellyclinton]

That was the best acid base lecture series I've seen on youtube. Thanks

[bigdaddylee]

I must have listened to over 20 vdos and still was confused....you totally rocked!

[amager]

Thank you for this series! I thought I understood acid/base before, but I learned a lot from this.

[ReneeKing]

Thank you this is a life saver for me in preparing for my first Pathophysiology exam in nursing school.

[gspona]

There are those that are inclined to interpret acid base derangements based on an ABG alone. After watching this whole series by Dr. Seheult, to them, I say stop :) Follow Dr. Seheult's method as detailed in this whole series, apply Winters formula and get a better clinical picture of what is going on with your patient. Simultaneously a patient might be experiencing a host of alkalotic or acidotic processes at the same time. Thank you for another top notch series, life for me will be easier as I will now not waste any more time on this topic, its all good now :)

[nighthug]

You are tremendously amazing teaching forwarding you doc

[elmooko]

Thanks for an excellent explanation of this.... This concept has always been a thorn in my side ever since undergrad (I'm just a lowly dietitian)!