IN spite of the widespread clinical use of acetylsalicylic acid in both buffered and unbuffered preparations, there is little information in the voluminous literature concerning the pharmacologic ...

During a recent shift, our emergency department (ED) team saw a patient with fairly severe diabetic ketoacidosis. The patient's serum bicarbonate level was 6 mEq/L and the venous pH was 6.85. During ...

During the past two years we have successfully reversed an apparently declivitous course in 6 patients with refractory bronchial asthma by correcting respiratory acidosis with sodium bicarbonate given ...

Sodium bicarbonate has been around forever. It’s actually baking soda. Athletes have also been experimenting with it for decades as a legal way to fight the familiar muscle burn you feel during hard ...