PA Boards 16: Acute Kidney Injury

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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How are we going to differentiate between pre-renal, intrinsic, and post-renal failure?

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0:00.0	What's going on guys and welcome to episode 16 of the Physician
0:04.2	assistant boards.com podcast and today we're going to talk about acute Reno
0:09.3	failure. Before we go ahead and get started I want to point you guys over to the YouTube channel
0:14.4	I just want to make sure that you guys are aware of this and you guys can go ahead and find it at
0:18.4	YouTube.com
0:20.0	forward slash PA boards with an S at the end and what I'm doing there is I'm making
0:25.5	little five to six minute videos about some case presentations or some patients that I've
0:29.7	seen to give more of a clinical perspective as to how things are done.
0:34.0	So hopefully you guys will find that informative, give me any feedback,
0:38.0	any way to make that better, please let me know,
0:40.0	and we'll go ahead and make those changes.
0:42.0	All right, so let's talk about acute renal failure.
0:44.8	Now, acute renal failure is the old term.
0:48.0	It's more commonly known as acute kidney injury
0:51.0	as of today.
0:52.4	And the definition is going to be an increase in
0:55.6	creatininin of 0.3 milligrams or an increase in 50% within the last 48 hours.
1:03.6	Now there are some organizations that have extended
1:06.7	the increase of 50% from baseline to a week.
1:10.6	So anywhere from 48 hours to a week is acceptable. However, I would probably use 48
1:16.4	hours as this is more of an acute process. But there are certain things like medications
1:22.2	that certainly won't cause any type of
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