A laboring client is beginning to hyperventilate. The nurse recognizes this could result in:
1. Respiratory alkalosis.
2. Metabolic alkalosis.
3. Respiratory acidosis.
4. Metabolic acidosis.
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Rationale:
1. With hyperventilation, there is a fall in PaCO2, and respiratory alkalosis results.
2. Metabolic alkalosis would not occur with hyperventilation.
3. Respiratory acidosis can occur as a woman's PaCO2 levels rise during the second stage of labor.
4. By the end of the first stage, a mild metabolic acidosis might have developed, not because of hyperventilation but because of compensation to the respiratory alkalosis.
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