Intensive Care Medicine - practice

Day 9 - acute kidney injury, RRT, MODS

In today's practice you will discuss the topic of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT).  Another topic is Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS). This day will be spent in the Department of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine, University hospital Brno, thus part of the teaching will also take place at the bedside of a patient.

For both topics you will find videolectures, lectures in pdf and links to recommended literature in the Study materials folder. Please study all these materials carefully before the practice, as it is a condition of participation in the practice, as well as answering the ROPOT.

Learning outcomes


Acute kidney injury (AKI), renal replacement therapy (RRT)

  • student learns how to recognize and define acute kidney injury/failure
  • student gains basic knowledge about the methods for renal functions replacement

Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

  • student will able to define and recognize Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
  • student will know etiology and mechanisms of MODS
  • student will know basic principles regarding management of patient with MODS

ATTENTION

  • for practice participation is required  fill in the ROPOT form
  • please, fill in the ROPOT form no later than midnight of the previous day