ICU nephrology

SCM15: AKI Post Cardiac Surgery, What’s New

March 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dr. Minh-Thu Duong (MD), from Staten Island University Hospital, NSLIJ Health System, New York, NY, discusses her abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM15), Acute Kidney Injury Post Cardiac Surgery: [read more...]

SCM15: ACEi/ARBs and AKI: Any Benefit?

March 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dr. Christian Suarez-Fuentes (CS), from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM15), Use of Renin Angiotensin [read more...]

Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiac Surgery: A Well-studied Cohort of AKI

December 1, 2014 // 1 Comment

Acute kidney injury (AKI) following cardiothoracic surgery has been well reported in the nephrology literature with numerous studies published in the last decade, although the definition of AKI was variable in many of these studies. In a recent [read more...]

Test Your Knowledge: Anion Gap in Metabolic Acidosis

August 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

The serum anion gap is a common tool used in clinical practice. Recent advances have led to a new mnemonic GOLD MARK to differentiate the various causes of anion gap metabolic acidosis. A recent article in AJKD by Vichot and Rastegar discusses the [read more...]

SCM14: Late-Breaking Abstract: CrCl Equation for AKI

April 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Dr. John Mellas, from Saint Mary’s Health Center, Saint Louis, MO, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2014 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM14), Description of Two Methods for Accurately Estimating Creatinine Clearance in [read more...]

SCM14: CRRT and Thrombocytopenia

April 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Dr. Pramod Guru (PG), Critical Care Fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, discusses his abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2014 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM14), Outcomes of Patients who Develop Thrombocytopenia While on Continuous [read more...]

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