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Metabolic acidosis will result in an increase in ventilation mediated by what? (mark all the correct answers.)

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Metabolic Acidosis Increases Ventilatory Drive

Acute metabolic acidosis decreases the pH of the arterial blood and strongly stimulates the peripheral chemoreceptors to increase ventilatory drive.

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