Talk:Delta ratio

Response to Notability tag
I cannot see why this page would not meet the notability criteria. As a medical student, I can say that delta ratio is a concept that all doctors interpreting acid-base disorders are expected to have at least passing familiarity with. As the multiple references show, the topic is well represented in the medical literature. It is true that it may be a little advanced for the general reader, but the same can be said of many articles on advanced medical topics within wikipedia, many of which are much more arcane than this. If there are no objections, I would like to remove this tag. Nren4237 (talk) 12:08, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Removed tags Nren4237 (talk) 01:28, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Broken Link Fix
Hello, there is a dead link in this article:

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/education/ccc/delta-ratio/

which should be:

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/delta-ratio/

note that "education" has been removed from the link, that's why the link fails, the article has been moved.

I'm sorry I was too lazy to figure out how one fixes broken links, it wasn't as immediately apparent as I'd hoped; anyway, another broken link fixed. At least for now. Spiffytoad (talk) 14:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Edits August 16 2015
"The classic is a hyperchloremic ... " is missing something, the classic what? Goof, situation, mistake? Admittedly, I'm taking context, but the missing word appears to something like "case" by, say, an intern whom doesn't realize they created the acidosis by mistake.

Anyway, I didn't count on this turning into an early Sunday Morning project, but clearly, this article has had several authors that weren't on the same page, however, better written than not.

First paragraph, first sentence, "whether a mixed acid base disorder (metabolic acidosis) is present." Well, I'm not going to defend this, but there are three mixed acid base disorder conditions: a Metabolic acidosis/alkalosis, a Respiratory acidosis/alkalosis, or an Anion Gap acidosis. Look here at the second section: http://fitsweb.uchc.edu/student/selectives/TimurGraham/Mixed_Acid_Base_Disorders.html

My issue is with the pointer to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_acidosis   (the (metabolic acidosis) part)

as this is incomplete, it should point to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base_imbalance for example, and in particular to the section on Mixed Disorders.

The second sentence implies any calculation of anion gap results in a condition of acidosis; not true, it could be normal, as in no Anion Gap. Any calculation that reveals an Anion Gap would be an acidosis (at least), and therein, I think, is what the author had in mind.

My reasoning for changing the form of the Delta Ratio equation stems from the fact there is only one concentration listed, bicarbonate, which should be in brackets as any chemist will tell you, AG is simply the difference between positive and negative ions (for those ions that count in this matter) and is not a concentration, and all the other quantities are numbers, though 24 would be the normal concentration of bicarbonate, but it's not used that way.

Further, there seems to be some confusion about what is a parenthetical expression and a "brackethecical" expression, whatever that is.

I am old school USA and I apologize if I'm not up to speed with any new formats being used today.

Also, I would cross reference carbonic acid with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonic_acid

One last thing, I would argue this page is about an Anion Gap Delta Ratio, as there are many delta ratios. Spiffytoad (talk) 18:32, 16 August 2015 (UTC)