Compensations to acute respiratory acidosis and alkalosis

Combined significance bands for plasma pH and concentrations of H+ and HCO3- in acute respiratory acidosis and alkalosis in humans. In uncomplicated acute respiratory acid-base disorders, values for the H+ and HCO3- concentrations will, with an estimated 95 percent probability, fall within the band. Values lying outside the band indicate the presence of a complicating metabolic acid-base disturbance.