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Acid Base Disorders - Formulas for appropriate metabolic and respiratory compensation

- Dr Amith Sreedharan - Consultant
Acid Base Disorders ... - Formulas for ... Sreedharan - Consultant Critical ... #Compensation #Formula ... Diagnosis #Nephrology #AcidBase
To improve the usefulness of the serum creatinine concentration as a marker of kidney function, prediction
predict GFR, these formulas ... commonly used formulas ... are shown in Table ... Neither formula ... #Calculation #Formulas
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Prediction of Compensatory Responses on Simple Acid-Base Disturbances

#acidbase #compensation #metabolic #respiratory #diagnosis #calculations #formulas #acidosis #alkalosis
on Simple Acid-Base ... Disturbances #acidbase ... #calculations #formulas
To get the most out of the sediment examination it is important to approach it in
an idea of the clinical ... scenario and formulate ... compartments (Table ... information and formulate ... #Differential #Table
Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as
correctly diagnose a case ... that any given case ... implies being able ... #Calculation #Table ... #PPV #NPV #Formulas
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Acid-Base Disorders - Expected Compensation Equations

Metabolic Acidosis:
 • pCO2 = 1.5 x HCO3 + 8 ±
Acid-Base Disorders ... ± 2 (Winter’s formula ... ↓ 4 #Acid #Base ... #AcidBase #Disorders
Table 1. Equations for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in adults based on serum creatinine concentration*.
#Diagnosis
Table 1. ... eGFR) in adults based ... #Calculation #Formulas
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)

Average arterial pressure throughout one cardiac cycle, systole, and diastole. 
Surrogate indicator of
Afterload also affects ... an increase in afterload ... Common formula: ... often titrated based ... #afterload #Heartrate
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
be determined based ... benefit from LV afterload ... inotrope therapy and afterload ... #differential #algorithm ... cardiology #treatment #table
USMLE Epidemiology and Biostatistics Summary
Meta-Analysis: pools data from several studies (greater power), limited by quality/bias of
individual studies Clinical ... cause-effect Case ... prove causation Case ... diseases, describe clinical ... Biostatistics #formulas