AKI – Acute Kidney Injury (ARF)

AKI – causes, prevention, and what to do. 40 mins.

Neil Turner, Professor of Nephrology. Part of  Renal Medicine in the Edinburgh MBChB.

ARF, the old name, stood for Acute Renal Failure.

Jump to Postgrad level supplement.

Undergraduate content coming very soon …

Postgrad supplement

• 35 min on AKI for internal medicine trainees, Sep 2020. Includes ‘Is COVID special?’

• What about contrast-associated nephropathy? It’s real but perception is exaggerated and most studies on the topic pretty low-value. You can’t do better than Joel Topf’s Tweetorials on contrast-associated AKI? Really? for this.

Further information

• AKI for patients (edren.org/info)
• AKI for junior docs and healthcare teams (edren.org/handbook)
• Concise history: 1961: Threshold of the new nephrology (historyofnephrology.blogspot.com)