Question

A patient is brought into the ed with respiratory depression. the patient has a history of copd. what acid-ba se imbalance is most likely? - respiratory acidosis.

Answer 1

Acid-base imbalance is most likely Respiratory acidosis

Respiratory acidosis is a condition that occurs when the lungs cannot remove all of the carbon dioxide the body produces. This causes body fluids, especially the blood, to become too acidic.

Causes of respiratory acidosis include:

• Diseases of the airways, such as asthma and COPD
• Diseases of the lung tissue, such as pulmonary fibrosis, which causes scarring and thickening of the lungs
• Diseases that can affect the chest, such as scoliosis

Some people with chronic respiratory acidosis get acute respiratory acidosis because an acute illness makes their condition worse and disrupts their body's acid-base balance.

Learn more about  respiratory acidosis here:

https://brainly.com/question/14633715

#SPJ4