Medicine: Acid Base Balance

Objectives of workshop: Approach to patient presenting with metabolic acidosis.

• Identify metabolic acidosis.
• Discriminate between anion gap and nonanion gap metabolic acidosis.
• Identify the composition of isotonic bicarbonate solution

Learning outcomes:

• Develop reasonable and justifiable differential diagnoses for a patient presenting with metabolic acidosis.
• List appropriate investigations for a patient presenting with metabolic acidosis.
• Formulate a specific management plan for patients presenting with metabolic acidosis.

Method of Delivery: Workshop

Work Plan: Group discussion

Faculty:

• Dr Hussein Elhassan, Specialist Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, and RCSI, Dublin, Ireland