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#Question id: 12700


A young man is found comatose, having taking an unknown number of sleeping pills an unknown time before. An arterial blood sample yields the following values: pH = 7.02, HCO3− = 14 mEq/L, and PCO2 = 68 mm Hg. This patient’s acid–base status is most accurately described as

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. uncompensated metabolic acidosis
  2. uncompensated respiratory acidosis
  3. simultaneous respiratory and metabolic acidosis
  4. respiratory acidosis with partial renal compensation