Intensive Care Medicine - practice

Day 6 - clinical internship, acid-based disorders

On the sixth day, you will visit the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at University Hospital Brno- Children´s Hospital. You will repeat the initial approach to the critically ill patient during the practice. The basics of acid-base and electrolytes disorders are part of this practice.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Electrolytes disturbances 

  • student identifies Na & K disturbance
  • student names symptoms and possible causes of these disturbances
  • student is able to discuss the basic principles of Na & K disturbances therapy

Acid-base balance disorders 

  • student will learn to detect the presence of acid-base balance disorder
  • student will learn how to evaluate the compensation of acid-base balance disorder
  • student will learn how to detect unmeasured anions of organic acids and to suggest differential diagnosis of the cause of metabolic acidosis

IMPORTANT
  • the essential condition of this practice participation is fill in the ROPOT form
  • please, fill in the ROPOT form no later than midnight of the previous day