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. 1991 Aug;155(2):146–151.

A Practical Approach to Acid-Base Disorders

Richard J Haber
PMCID: PMC1002945  PMID: 1843849

Abstract

This discussion was selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from a transcription, it has been edited by Homer A. Boushey, MD, Professor of Medicine, and Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, under the direction of Lloyd H. Smith, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine.

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