Syllabus
Clinical Biochemistry - 5th year
Both semesters (summer and winter)
Seminars
Day 1
Rational and ethical approach in laboratory examination (with focus on clinical biochemistry)
Diagnostic effectivity of laboratory testing
Request forms, reports, how to use the report, how to use reference ranges, cut-off values
Acid-base balance
Water and ion metabolism (regulation of body fluids, body compartments, hyperhydratation, dehydratation)
Clinical biochemistry in intensive care - sepsis, inlammation, SIRS.
Day 2
Acute kidney injury
Chronic kidney diseases
Biomarkers of cardiovascular risk
Troponins, natriuretic peptides, clinical biochemistry of acute coronary syndromes and chronic heart failure
Clinical biochemistry of liver and pancreas diseases
Day 3
Osteoporosis, metabolic bone disease
Monoclonal gammopathies
Thyreopathy
Diabetes mellitus - diagnostics and monitoring
Hypo- and hyperparathyreoidismus
Final test and analysis of test results
Total of 20 hrs
Requirements for course credit:
·100% participation in the seminars
· Successful completion of the written test
In justifiable cases it is possible to substitute one day with written work ("scientific paper") planned by agreement with the clinical biochemistry studies Guarantor. prof. MUDr. Antonín Jabor, CSc.
The clinical biochemistry studies Guarantor
September 29, 2022
Annotation
Principles of interpretation, the role of clinical biochemistry in the diagnosis and monitoring of renal function, cardiovascular risk, cardiac diseases, selected metabolic disorders, evaluation of biomarkers (including inflammation and sepsis).