Intensive Medicine — Renal, Hydroelectrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders
Intensive Medicine · Clinical Specialties
How it begins
Un estudio exhaustivo y riguroso de los mecanismos homeostáticos, moleculares y biofísicos que rigen la función renal y el equilibrio interno en pacientes en estado crítico, integrando algoritmos terapéuticos avanzados y monitorización de alta definición.
What it covers
- Kidney and Acid-Base Disorders
- Kidney Pathophysiology in the Critically Ill Patient
- · Glomerular Autoregulation Mechanisms
- · Medullary Hypoxia: An Anatomical Physiological Trap
- Acute Kidney Failure (AKI): Classification and Biomarkers
- · Evolution of AKI Clinical Classifications
- · Critical Limitations of Serum Creatinine in Critical Care Patients
- · New Generation Biomarkers: Damage vs. Function
- Acute Tubular Necrosis (ATN) vs. Prerenal AKI
- · Key Pathophysiological Differentiation
- · Urinary Indices and their Physiological Basis
- · Microscopic Analysis of Urinary Sediment
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) in the ICU
- · Biophysical Solute Transport Mechanisms
- · Adsorption: The Third Mechanism
- · CRRT Standard Modalities
- · Prescription and Metabolic Dosage
- · Regional Anticoagulation with Citrate (RCA)
- Sodium Disorders I: Hyponatremia in the ICU
- · Diagnostic Algorithm Based on Tonicity
- · Brain Cellular Adaptation to Hyponatremia
- · Management of Acute Severe Symptomatic Hyponatremia
- Sodium Disorders II: Hypernatremia in the ICU
- · Physiopathological Classification according to Volemia
- · Security Replacement and Correction Strategies
- Potassium Physiology and Disorders
- · Hyperkalemia: Immediate Cardiac Threat
- · Emergency Treatment of Severe Hyperkalemia
- · Hypokalemia: Pathophysiology and Disorder of the ROMK Channel
- Calcium, Phosphorus and Magnesium Disorders in Critical
- · Calcium Disorders: Ionized Fraction and Albumin Correction
- · Phosphorus Disorders: The Feedback Syndrome and Diagrammatic Failure
- Advanced Acid-Base Physiology: Henderson-Hasselbalch Approach vs. Stewart
- · The Classical Henderson-Hasselbalch Hypothesis and its Limitations
- · Peter Stewart's Physicochemical Approach
- Metabolic acidosis in the critically ill patient
- · Categorization by Anion Gap
- · Elevated Anion Gap Acidosis (Normochloremic Acidosis)
- · Other Causes of High Anion Gap
- · Normal Anion Gap Acidosis (Hyperchloremic Acidosis)
- Metabolic Alkalosis and Acid-Base Respiratory Disorders
- · Metabolic Alkalosis: Classification Based on Urinary Chlorine
- · Acid-Base Disorders of Respiratory Origin
- Mixed Acid-Base Disorders in Intensive Care
- · Systematic Diagnostic Interpretation Algorithm
- Cardiorenal Syndrome and Hepatorrenal Syndrome in the ICU
- · Cardiorenal Syndrome (CRS): Bidirectional Cross Damage
- · Hepatorrenal Syndrome (HRS / HRS-AKI)
- · Updated Diagnostic Criteria of the ICA-HRS (International Club of Ascites)
- Renal Pharmacology and Drug Adjustment in the Critical Patient
- · Modified Pharmacokinetics in AKI and CRRT
- · Directed Nephrotoxicity: Common Medications in the ICU
- · Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury (AKI-CI)
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- Subject
- Intensive Medicine
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 53
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02