Intensive Care Medicine - practice

Day 8 - ICU nutrition, acute liver failure, palliative care and EOLD

In today's practice, you will discuss various topics related to ICU nutrition, acute liver failure, palliative care and End of Life Decision (EOLD) in the debriefing room in SIMU. For all topics, please see the Study Materials folder. Video lectures, pdf lectures, and links are prepared for your studying. Due to the nature of the exercise, you don't need to bring your gown and student ID today.

Please study all of these materials carefully before the exercise, as it is a requirement for participation in the exercise, as well as correctly answering the ROPOT.

Learning outcomes


ICU nutrition

  • student is able to describe basic pathophysiology of malnutrition
  • student understands the role of nutrition in critical care
  • student understands basic principles of nutrition administration on ICU
  • student is able to describe main risks of feeding patient on ICU

Acute liver failure

  • student will learn to classify Acute Liver Failure and Acute on Chronic Liver Failure
  • student will learn how to make the initial evaluation in a patient with Liver Failure
  • management of hepatic encephalopathy, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and variceal bleeding will be discussed

Palliative care and EOLD

  • student will understand basic principles and goals of palliative care in the ICU
  • student will understand basic terminology in palliative care
  • student will understand basic ethical principles applied in the ICU
  • student will understand basic principles end-of-life decisions (EOLD) and end-of-life care (EOLC)
  • student will understand withdrawing and withholding of organ support

Study materials
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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

ROPOT - ICU nutrition + acute liver failure + EOLD

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