Renal Acid-Base guide

[The Angriest Bird]

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This is an area for which I've always studied hard but have never studied enough. Does anyone have a handy-dandy guide that is sufficient for Step I?

One of my attendings said in one meeting that there's some guide circulating around that's really good for understanding acid-base physiology/pathology. Anyone know what this is? Thank you!

 

[osli]

None of them seem to stick for me. I've seen several, and each time thought "ooh... this looks pretty simple, and it makes sense... perfect" and then a week later I can't remember anything about it.

One thing I finally learned is that if I just took the time to understand renal acid/base physiology, then I could reason out pretty much any question from first principles. I didn't need to try to (once again) memorize rules of thumbs for evaluating disturbances.

But hey... maybe someone else has that magic guide that will work for even me!

 

[Monica Lewinsky]

Is it important to memorize the acid/base disorder graph in FA and BRS? I understand acid base physio, but that graph seems like its not worth the time to memorize if you understand ab physio conceptually.

 

[It'sElectric]

I've expended no energy in memorizing the exact compensations or the nomogram...does anyone know if these are necessary to know??

I agree it's conceptual, and that's exactly how I've gone about understanding it all. Hopefully I still understand it this Saturday.