Closing the gap on unmeasured anions
Many critically ill and injured patients, especially those with metabolic acidosis, have abnormally high levels of unmeasured anions in their blood. At the same time, such patients are prone to hypoalbuminemia, which makes the traditional anion gap calculation inaccurate. Thus, little is known about...
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BioMed Central
2003
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC270684/ |