All right, welcome, my name is Devine. This is episode 439 of the Devine Intervention

podcasts and into this podcast we're going to be talking about anion gap metabolic acidosis part one.

Anion gap metabolic acidosis part one.

Now I'll make a reference to episode 321. its podcast titled The Clutch metabolic Acidosis Podcast. In that podcast, I pretty much address metabolic acidosis in general. I talk about mechanisms and many different things, but really in this

podcast I want a laser in on an ion gap metabolic acidosis. I'm going to give you some

background in this podcast and then in the next podcast God willing I will talk about

mechanisms behind the different kinds of an iron gap metabolic acidosis.

So if you're something you want to understand, consider listening, start with

episode 321 it will help you.

But if you don't want to start there, that's fine.

You can also just listen to episode 439 and the part two of the Anayongak metabolic acidosis

podcast.

But by we have a quick summary, first things first, what is metabolic acidosis?

Whenever you have metabolic acidosis you know that you have low bicarb, your bicarb is low. When you have any kind of metabolic acidosis your bicarb has to be low and because your bicarb is low then your pH is going to be low as well.

Simple as that. The bicarb is low so your pH is going to be low as well. Simple as that. The bicarb is low so your pH is going to be low as well.

And usually you're going to compensate for that with a respiratory alkalosis.

So you try to hyperventilate to bluff some extra CO2 because if you bring down CO2 that you're triggered

a respiratory alkalosis which can counterbalance the metabolic acidosis.

So now let's get into this whole business of the an ion gap.

But again, what's one of the easiest ways to understand this thing?

I'm really going to break it down super, super basic.

It's really not that hard if you just pay attention.

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