{"id":9750,"date":"2026-02-25T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-acid-base-balance-facts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:10","slug":"respiratory-therapy-acid-base-balance-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-acid-base-balance-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Therapy Acid Base Balance Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acid Base Basics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The body maintains pH through respiratory and metabolic systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Respiratory Acidosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High carbon dioxide levels cause respiratory acidosis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Respiratory Alkalosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Low carbon dioxide levels cause respiratory alkalosis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metabolic Acidosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Low bicarbonate levels cause metabolic acidosis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metabolic Alkalosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High bicarbonate levels cause metabolic alkalosis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-abg-interpretation-facts\">Respiratory Therapy ABG Interpretation Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-critical-thinking\">Respiratory Therapy Critical Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-patient-assessment\">Respiratory Therapy Patient Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acid Base Basics The body maintains pH through respiratory and metabolic systems. Respiratory Acidosis High carbon dioxide levels cause respiratory acidosis. Respiratory Alkalosis Low carbon dioxide levels cause respiratory alkalosis. Metabolic Acidosis Low bicarbonate levels cause metabolic acidosis. Metabolic Alkalosis High bicarbonate levels cause metabolic alkalosis. Related Articles Respiratory Therapy ABG Interpretation Facts Respiratory Therapy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[37,36,35],"class_list":["post-9750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-respiratory-therapy","tag-respiratory-therapist","tag-respiratory-therapy","tag-rt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}