1) Acute Kidney Injury – Special Considerations

All students should be familiar with the basic problems connected with acute kidney injury.

A student has to prepare the presentation: Acute kidney injury – special considerations.

Source of knowledge:

https://empendium.com/mcmtextbook/chapter/B31.II.14.1

https://empendium.com/mcmtextbook/chapter/B31.II.7.12.#119882

The presentation should consist of:

1. Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN)

    - definition

    - pathophysiology

    - risk factors

    - prevention

  a. Nonpharmacologic prevention strategies

  b. Pharmacologic prevention strategies – drugs with doses!

2. Acute phosphate nephropathy

    - definition

    - risk factors

    - prevention

    - treatment

3. Warfarin-related nephropathy (WRN)

4. Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS)

    - definition

    - primary and secondary causes

5. Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)

    - types, definitions

    - patogenesis

    - diagnostics criteria

    - treatment

  a. Nonpharmacologic therapy

  b. Pharmacologic and invasive therapies - drugs with doses!

6. Acute renal cortical necrosis (ARCN)

    - causes

    - triad of symptoms

    - diagnosis

    - prognosis

    - treatment

2) Atrial fibrillation

All students should be familiar with the basic problems connected with atrial fibrillation.

A student has to prepare the presentation: Atrial fibrillation.

Source of knowledge:

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/151066-overview

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/151066-guidelines

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/151066-treatment

https://empendium.com/mcmtextbook/chapter/B31.II.2.6.6.

The presentation should consist of:

1. Practise essentials

2. Etiology

3. Epidemiology

4. Atrial fibrillation classification

5. Signs and symptoms

6. Stroke risk assessment

7. Bleeding risk assessment

8. Atrial  fibrillation treatment and management

3) Complications of diabetes mellitus

All students should be familiar with the basic problems connected with complications of diabetes mellitus.

The student has to prepare the presentation: Complications of diabetes mellitus

https://empendium.com/mcmtextbook/chapter/B31.II.13.1.

Volume 45 Issue Supplement_1 | Diabetes Care | American Diabetes Association (diabetesjournals.org)

2022 Guidelines on the management of patients with diabetes. A position of Diabetes Poland (currenttopicsindiabetes.com)

The presentation should consist of:

1. Acute Complications of Diabetes Mellitus

• Diabetic Ketoacidosis (Definition, Etiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Treatment, Complications)
• Drug-Induced Hypoglycemia (Definition, Etiology, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Treatment)
• Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State (Definition, Etiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Treatment, Complications)
• Lactic Acidosis (Definition, Etiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention)

2. Chronic Complications of Diabetes Mellitus

• Diabetic Foot Syndrome (Etiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Treatment)
• Diabetic Kidney Disease
• Diabetic Neuropathy (Etiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, Treatment)
• Diabetic Retinopathy (Etiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention)