were corrected in three days by intravenous perfusions of saline solutions, without nasal oxygen therapy or artificial ventilation.The treatment of metabolic alkalosis is based on the correction of hypovolaemia by perfusions of chloride-containing solutions, since hypo- chloraemia maintains metabolic alkalosis.The spontaneous ventilatory compensation of metabolic alkalosis in these patients suggests that the respiratory centre depression produced in severe alkalosis predominates over the stimulatory effects of hypercapnia and hypoxia.By recognition of such hypercapnia as a life-saving response unjustified artificial ventilation may be avoided.
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Rombouts-Lindemans et al. (1982) studied this question.