Today we’ll be discussing acute kidney injury (AKI). How often are you looking at the Bun/Cr thinking ‘Patient has an AKI’…and then not much more? I’ve done this. While ascertaining the unde…
You’re at Sinai – and your patient is a renal transplant patient. What do you do? “Don’t you just call renal transplant?” Yes, you should definitely call them. But there’s other things to consider – see below for today’s TR pearls.
If you’re like me, when you treat hyperkalemia, you make things easy on yourself and open up that HyperK orderset, or think about the mnemonic C BIG K DROP (Calcium, beta-agonist/bicarb, insulin, glucose, Kayexalate (Lokelma actually)…
This deep dive came from a question posed during a morning report by Jackson. Jackson presented the case of a patient presenting with a swollen penis at MSBI, found to have low albumin and diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome. These patients a…
