Summer School of Clinical Acid-Base and Homeostasis is an intensive course focused on acid-base and related topics led by experts in the field. The course will take you from basics to advanced level in 4 days of theoretical lectures and practical workshops in which real patients’ cases are discussed in small groups.

The overarching objective is to help the participants to learn, thoroughly understand, and gain confidence in reading and interpreting the blood-gas analysis in an acutely sick patient.

Target audience

Trainees and specialists in intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, anaesthesiology, internal medicine and all other disciplines that use blood-gas analysis as a diagnostic tool. Motivated medical students, critical care nurses and advanced critical care practitioners are most welcome, too.

Learning objectives

In the end of this course, the attendee should:

• Read and interpret acid-base status with confidence at the bedside.
• Apply at bedside both classical bicarbonate-centred approach and simplified quantitative physical chemical model of acid-base, whilst understanding their complementarity and limitations.
• Discuss the pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and management of osmolarity disorders.
• Prescribe infusion fluids with awareness of their effect on heamodynamics, organ function and acid-base.
• Prevent and manage fluid overload in acutely sick patient.