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Respiratory Alkalosis

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Alkalosis with reduction of carbon dioxide, followed by a reduction in plasma bicarbonate. The primary cause is hyperventilation: anxiety or panic attacks, fever, exercise, mechanical ventilation, or salicylate overdose.

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