(See Pathogenesis of metabolic alkalosis and Clinical manifestations and evaluation of metabolic alkalosis and Treatment of metabolic alkalosis.) INTRACELLULAR SHIFT OF HYDROGEN. Metabolic alkalosis can be generated by a shift of hydrogen ions into the cells. This most often occurs in patients with potassium deficits and hypokalemia. This may be an important pathophysiologic mechanism in patients with metabolic alkalosis due to vomiting or nasogastric suction [7].
An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people were executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Although many were true criminals and threats to the Committee of Public Safety, many of these people were killed merely for not being supportive enough of the revolution.
The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties is a book by British historian Robert Conquest, published in 1968.It gave rise to an alternate title of the period in Soviet history known as the Great Purge.Conquest's title was in turn an allusion to the period that was called Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur, and, from June to July 1794, la Grande Terreur-the Great Terror-) during the French Revolution.owever, in the preface to the 40th anniversary edition of The Great Terror (2007), Conquest said that Exact numbers may never be known with complete certainty, but the total of deaths caused by the whole range of Soviet regime's terrors can hardly be lower than some thirteen to fifteen million..