1 The Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York
In summary, the work which I have described here represents a quantitative approach to answering certain questions in the acid-base field which are physiologically important and practically useful as well. Encouraged by the results we have thus far obtained, we hope to pursue this general approach in answering other similar questions in this general area.