Joining us this week to discuss all things Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is Chris Laing. Chris is a Consultant Nephrologist, Divisional Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine at UCLH and founder of the London AKI network.
We discuss how to spot AKI in patients, both at the bedside and laboratory models that can quickly flag at risk patients. STOP criteria is a quick tool to help clinicians consider the possible causes of AKI: Sepsis, Toxicity, Obstruction and Primary (renal diesease).
We delve into questions such as:
Is creatinine the best blood value to determine AKI?
What are the indications for hourly urine measure?
When is renal replacement therapy beneficial?
How do you manage Tumour Lysis Syndrome?
When can you trust an eGFR, and when can't you?
How are renal complications of Multiple Myeloma best managed?
And most importantly, why do humans have two kidneys?
