Intensive Care Medicine

Day 8: Disability, Clinical Department Visit (KARIM)

Learning outcomes
  • The student sorts disorders of consciousness (quantitative and qualitative).
  • The student can use the AVPU score. 
  • The student can make a plan for the initial differential diagnosis of conscious disorders and prioritize the treatment steps. 
  • The student can examine the patient's pupils, meningeal signs, and signs of lateralization and interpret the pathological findings. 
  • The student defines delirium and states the difference between delirium and agitation. 
  • The student discusses possible causes of ICU delirium. 
  • The student knows the possible pharmacotherapy of delirium.
  • The student knows the typical diagnosis associated with seizures. 
  • The student can describe situations where there is a need for pharmacological termination of seizures.
  • The student knows the treatment of generalized status epilepticus (SE). 
  • The student makes a plan for an initial differential diagnosis of seizures. 
  • The student knows the normal values of glycemia. 
  • The student knows the symptoms of hypoglycemia. 
  • The student knows the initial treatment of hypoglycemia. 
  • The student characterizes 2 serious states associated with hyperglycemia. 
  • The student knows the principles of hyperglycemia treatment and possible shifts in potassium levels.

In this chapter, we will discuss the pathologies which could be found and solved in "D" during the ABCDE approach. 

You can find a summary of information on this topic in the text below. Detailed information is available in video lectures and recommended literature. 

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