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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Compensations to acute respiratory acidosis and alkalosis Combined significance bands for plasma pH and concentrations of H+ and HCO3- in acute respiratory acidosis and alkalosis in humans. In uncomplicated acute respiratory acid-base disorders, values for the H+ and HCO3- concentrations will, with an estimated 95 percent probability, fall within the band. Values lying outside the band indicate the presence of a complicating metabolic acid-base disturbance. From Arbus, GS, Herbert, LA, Levesque, PR, Etsten, BE, Schwartz, WB. N Engl J Med 1969; 280:117. By permission from the New England Journal of Medicine.