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Previous Volume 339:1170-1171 October 15, 1998 Number 16

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By Benjamin Abelow. 333 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1998. $24.95. ISBN 0-683-18272-2.

For most students of medicine, acid–base homeostasis (and its disorders) remains an elusive and arcane subject. This is not surprising: the concepts underlying the clinical management of acid–base homeostasis are complex, involving chemistry as well as physiology, and textbooks on the subject often fail to communicate these concepts clearly. Understanding Acid-Base is a remarkably successful attempt to cut through this complexity and to present the subject unambiguously. The approach is unique because the author is not an expert in the field but came to the subject as a student himself, trying to gain a full understanding of the topic. His . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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