Kenrick Berend
St. Elisabeth Hospital, Curacao
Biography
Kenrick Berend completed his studies to become an internist at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is working in Curaçao at the Department of Nephrology and Internal Medicine in the St. Elisabeth Hospital Curaçao and the Curaçao Dialysis Centre. He wrote a dissertation on subacute aluminium intoxication in haemodialysis patients in 2003. He published several papers on different subjects, including those on hypertension, acid-base and haemodialysis. His main research area is acid-base disturbances and he authored the guideline on this subject for all hospitals in the Netherlands in a chapter in a booklet on acute internal medicine problems and among others a review in the New England Journal of Medicine. He gave lectures on acid-base disturbances in several places, including the General Massachusetts Hospital in Boston, several university hospitals in the Netherlands and at conferences in the USA, China, the Netherlands, St. Maarten and Curaçao. He also has trained numerous medical students and residents from the Netherlands.
Abstract
Abstract : Chloride, the queen of electrolytes