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Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?)
Consultant, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital; Clinical Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
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Reddi BAJ. Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?). Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(6):747-750. doi:10.7150/ijms.5868. https://www.medsci.org/v10p0747.htm
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Commercial 0.9% saline solution for infusion has a pH around 5.5. There are many reasons for this acidity, some of them still obscure. It is also true that infusion of normal saline can lead to metabolic acidaemia, yet the link between the acidity of saline solution and the acidaemia it can engender is not straightforward. This commentary draws together the known and putative sources of acidity in saline solutions: it turns out that the acidity of saline solution is essentially unrelated to the acidaemia complicating saline infusion.
Keywords: saline, acidaemia, titratable acidity, crystalloid, balanced solution, Grotthuss.
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Reddi, B.AJ. (2013). Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?). International Journal of Medical Sciences, 10(6), 747-750. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijms.5868.
ACS
Reddi, B.AJ. Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?). Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013, 10 (6), 747-750. DOI: 10.7150/ijms.5868.
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Reddi BAJ. Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?). Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(6):747-750. doi:10.7150/ijms.5868. https://www.medsci.org/v10p0747.htm
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Reddi BAJ. 2013. Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?). Int J Med Sci. 10(6):747-750.
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