Bicarbonate is a form of carbon dioxide (CO2), a gas waste left when your body burns food for energy. Bicarbonate belongs to a group of electrolytes, which help keep your body hydrated and make sure ...

Credit: Thinkstock Sodium bicarbonate is the most common treatment, but it has notable limitations, particularly in terms of patient adherence. Sodium bicarbonate has some down sides, but there are ...

In critically ill patients with severe metabolic acidaemia (defined as pH ≤ 7.20) and moderate-to-severe acute kidney injury (AKI), intravenous sodium bicarbonate infusion did not reduce all-cause ...