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Book cover Acid-Base Regulation and Body Temperature

Part of the book series: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology ((DCCA,volume 10))

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During the last three-quarters of this century we have all been imprinted with the truism that normal blood pH is 7.4. We were never told why this particular value was important, and one accepted the fact that somehow this was ’ordained by nature.’ Nevertheless, it has served us well, in fact so well that one could easily accept the premise that our respiratory center is a pH-stat responsible for maintaining the appropriate blood reaction. It also led others to conveniently refer to a pH of 7.4 as neutral pH and values below or above as acidosis and alkalosis even though, since the times of Claude Bernard, we have known that normal blood is always on the alkaline side of chemical neutrality.

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  1. Department of Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Hermann Rahn Ph.D.

  2. Thorax Centre and Department of Anesthesia, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Omar Prakash M.D.

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Rahn, H. (1985). Introduction. In: Rahn, H., Prakash, O. (eds) Acid-Base Regulation and Body Temperature. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5004-7_1

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