Sodium bicarbonate isn’t a new concept when it comes to sport. There’s plenty of research that shows that ingesting it can improve an athlete’s performance and their anaerobic capacity — the ability ...

Baking soda is a deceptively simple product that has a long list of uses outside the culinary world. In fact, baking soda has been heralded as a way to absorb and neutralize unwelcome bathroom odors, ...

During a recent shift, our emergency department (ED) team saw a patient with fairly severe diabetic ketoacidosis. The patient's serum bicarbonate level was 6 mEq/L and the venous pH was 6.85. During ...

Prior low-quality evidence has suggested that sodium bicarbonate may benefit critically ill patients with severe metabolic acidemia and acute kidney injury (AKI). In this randomized trial of patients ...

Credit: Thinkstock Sodium bicarbonate is the most common treatment, but it has notable limitations, particularly in terms of patient adherence. Sodium bicarbonate has some down sides, but there are ...

Intravenous sodium bicarbonate failed to reduce mortality in critically ill patients with severe acidemia and moderate to severe acute kidney injury (AKI), an open-label randomized trial found. In the ...