@article{b3253516115f4e21ad0b2685799cd764,
title = "Use of oxygen inhalation in evaluation of respiratory acidosis in patients with apparent metabolic alkalosis",
abstract = "Respiratory failure presenting with normal or high pH because of associated metabolic alkalosis is commonly encountered and has received much attention. In such cases the respiratory acidosis may be inapparent and, therefore, may not be treated appropriately, with what may be serious consequences to the patient. A simple, readily available method is described to allow unmasking of the respiratory acidosis, and to separate patients with mixed respiratory acidosis-metabolic alkalosis from patients with pure metabolic alkalosis. This method is based on the observation that when inhaling 100 per cent oxygen for twelve minutes, overt respiratory acidosis often developed in patients with potential hypoventilation whatever their initial arterial gas values.",
author = "Albert Miller and Teirstein, \{Alvin S.\} and Joel Duberstein and Chusid, \{E. Leslie\} and Bader, \{Mortimer E.\} and Bader, \{Richard A.\}",
note = "Funding Information: * From the Pulmonary Laboratory and the Department of Medicine of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, and the Pulmonary Laboratory and Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Services, City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, New York, New York. This work was supported in part by the Robert S. Clarke Foundation. Requests for reprints should be addressed to Albert Miller, M.D., Cardiopulmonary Laboratory, Mt. Sinai Hospital, 100th St. and Fifth Ave., New York, New York 10029. Manuscript received November 20, 1967.",
year = "1968",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/0002-9343(68)90167-8",
language = "English",
volume = "45",
pages = "513--519",
journal = "American Journal of Medicine",
issn = "0002-9343",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "4",
}