respiratory acidosis
Too much blood CO2
Respiratory acidosis is a condition where the blood becomes too acidic because the lungs fail to expel enough carbon dioxide.
This happens when breathing is impaired—by lung disease, sedation, or airway obstruction.
The retained CO₂ forms carbonic acid in the blood, lowering pH.
Symptoms include confusion, drowsiness, and headache.
The patient's respiratory acidosis worsened as the pneumonia progressed.
- alveoliLung's gas-exchange chambers
- hypoventilationInadequate lung gas exchange
- carbon dioxideRespiration byproduct, photosynthesis fuel
- dyspneaLabored respiration condition
- labored breathingEffortful, strained respiration
shallow breaths · blood gas · mechanical ventilation · ventilator support · confusion · brain fog · oxygen therapy · headache · chemoreceptors · airway obstruction · lung disease · sleep apnea · bronchodilators · drug overdose · lethargy · labored · cyanosis · COPD
- acidosisketoacidosis
- Blood Gas Disordersalkalosis, alkalemia, hypoxemia, pH imbalance, ketoacidosis
- Blood GasespH, blood pH, oxygen saturation, SpO2, bicarbonate
- Fluid Imbalancesdehydrated, edema, fluid loss, fluid retention, overhydration
- pH BalancepH, acid, base, buffer, bicarbonate
- breathingbreathing, inhalation, breath, exhalation, breathe
combined contrast (both direction and mechanism)
respiratory acidosishyperventilation
Abnormally rapid respiration