KROK 1 2013 – Question 14 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient with diabetes developed a diabetic coma due to the acid-base imbalance. Specify the kind of this imbalance:
- A. Non-gaseous alkalosis
- B. Gaseous alkalosis
- C. Respiratory acidosis
- D. Metabolic alkalosis
- E. Metabolic acidosis
Hint
Ask which acids accumulate when insulin is lacking, what they do to the bicarbonate buffer and pH, and whether the lungs are the origin of the primary change.
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