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Critical Care April 2005 Vol 9 No 2 Kaplan and Frangos Review Clinical review: Acid–base abnormalities in the intensive care unit Lewis J Kaplan and Spiros Frangos Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Section of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Corresponding author: Lewis J Kaplan, Lewis.Kaplan@ Published online: 20 October 2004 Critical Care 2005, 9:198-203 (DOI 10.1186/cc2912) This article is online at /content/9/2/198 ? 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract Acid–base abnormality genesis Traditional paradigms of