Stay with us! In the final episode of this series, Keith and Courtney introduce Acid-Base Balance and Disturbances. It has taken years for both of them to get to grips on some of the basics of this topic, and they spend the next hour breaking down what is going on and how to interpret the values...

Last episode, we talked about how carbon dioxide is formed in the body, and how it gets from the cells to the lungs. Now that it has arrived there – what next?! In this episode, Keith and Courtney talk about what happens when carbon dioxide diffuses from the pulmonary capillary into the alveoli...

In the first episode on carbon dioxide, Keith and Courtney will undoubtedly make you rethink the role of carbon dioxide in the blood – it isn’t the “bad guy” we perhaps thought it was.   They start their conversation right down at the cellular level again and discuss how it gets from there to...