1. Severe, sudden metabolic acidosis is a common cause of mortality. 2. Longstanding chronic metabolic acidosis leads to osteoporosis and can cause fractures. 3. Can anyone tell me what causes metabolic acidosis in burn victims? 4. Treatment of uncompensated metabolic acidosis is focused upon correcting the underlying problem. 5. The metabolic acidosis caused by RTA is a normal anion gap acidosis. 6. Metabolic acidosis in these patients is usually refractory to correction with bicarbonate.7. The patient may suffer hypertensive crisis and metabolic acidosis . 8. Metabolic acidosis is a more reliable predictor, but is not always available.9. This type of disturbance is called a metabolic acidosis . 10. Hyperkalemia in these patients can present as a non anion-gap metabolic acidosis .