Critical Care Nephrology Course 2013
Acute Kidney Injury(AKI) is a common entity in the Intensive Care and Emergency Room environments. Intensivists and Emergency Medicine physicians play a critical role in recognizing early AKI , preventing iatrogenic injury and reversing the course of AKI.
As a participant of this course you will be able to :
- Recognize new developments in the definition and the Pathophysiology of AKI.
- Understand Strategies for prevention and pharmaceutical treatment of AKI.
- Know Evidence based indications for the treatment of AKI using renal replacement therapies
- Learn Issues relevant to patients with acute and chronic kidney disease.
- Attend hands on workshop on CRRT
- Visit the course medical exhibition featuring the latest products used in the Intensive care environment.
Critical Care Nephrology Course Lectures:
- AKI (Definitions, Incidence, Causes, Stages, Management)
- CRRT: Therapy Overview (Definition, Advantages, Evidence Based Medicine, Clinical Indications)
- CRRT:Physiological Principals and Treatment Modalities
- CRRT:Components of the therapy
- CRRT Treatment Guidelines (Timing of Initiation, Modality Selection, Example of CRRT prescription)
- New KDIGO AKI guidelines
- Advances in Extracorporeal Blood Purification therapies
- Management of electrolytes imbalance in CRRT
- Advances in the management of Sepsis with AKI
- TPE (Therapeutic Plasma Exchange)
Date:10 October, 2013
This course is organized by Gambro Middle East Scientific Office
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