The medium is already a buffered (bicarbonate buffer) solution which maintains a proper pH when in the incubator with 3-5% CO2. But the pH rapidly changes when working with the medium outside the incubator However, you can add HEPES (final concentration 10-20 mM) to the medium gives more buffering capacity which maintains pH between 7.2-7.6 even outside the incubator. The other alternatives to HEPES are MOPS and DIPSO.