Kidney Week 2014: KDIGO Guidelines and Conferences – Part 2
Day 1 of ASN Kidney Week. November 12, 2014 Thursday. On March 2014, a KDIGO Controversies Conference on Iron Management in Chronic Kidney Disease was conducted in [...]
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Kidney Week 2014: KDIGO Guidelines and Conferences
Day 1 of ASN Kidney Week. November 12, 2014 Thursday. This is the day that the KDIGO App for the iPhone was released. I am proud to have been part of the team involved with [...]
Managing Nephrology Outpatient Clinic as an Entrustable Professional Activity
Recently, medicine educators have shifted their approach to training fellows in order to identify when trainees are “ready for unsupervised practice” in the six [...]
Before and After TREAT
In a recent article published in AJKD, Thamer at al did a retrospective observational investigation of the ESA prescribing patters before and after publication of the TREAT [...]
Vascular Access in High Risk PD Patients?
With the recent changes in the healthcare system brought about by the current economic climate paving the way for “prospective payment bundling,” there has been growing [...]
Severe Hyponatremia in Kidney Failure: Treatment Dilemmas
Severe hyponatremia can produce challenging diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. This is because significant morbidity and mortality can accompany overly rapid correction of [...]
NephMadness 2014 • Thanks
See the final standings! | NephMadness.com for backstory | #NephMadness on Twitter As you might imagine, pulling off NephMadness was a huge undertaking. So many people [...]
Welcome to NephMadness 2014
go to nephmadness.com for background | Submit your picks! | Follow #NephMadness on Twitter To coincide with National Kidney Month eAJKD is proud to present NephMadness [...]
NephMadness 2014: Hypertension Bracket
go to nephmadness.com for background | Submit your picks! | Follow #NephMadness on Twitter With the last-minute addition of the highly controversial JNC8, this [...]
CKD Stage 4A and 4B… On the Horizon???
As clinical nephrologists, we are faced with the dilemma of which of our CKD patients will actually progress to ESRD. Oftentimes, our patients ask, “When am I going to need [...]