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Extreme acidosis – how low can you go? 4

26 Apr, 2017 in Conference talks / SWEETS17 tagged critical care / Emergency medicine / ICU general / physiology / sweets17 / toxicology by Mads Astvad

How low a pH can the human body handle? How bad is acidosis in cardiac arrest? Is there any point attempting to resuscitate a cardiac arrest patient with a pH of 6.8?