Nurses' knowledge regarding the early identification of acute kidney injury

Early Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury

Prof. Vanholder, the number of ERA-EDTA’s scienti!c working groups has been growing over the last years. Some of them such as the Immunonephrology Working Group or EURECA-m have been active already for four or !ve years; others, e.g. DESCARTES or the MBD-CKD Working Group started last year. Are you satis!ed with the scienti!c output of these groups? Prof. Vanholder: Our concept of working group...

Early diagnosis of acute kidney injury.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The early detection of acute kidney injury may allow for timely preventive or therapeutic measures. This review discusses the role of traditional and novel biomarkers in early acute kidney injury diagnosis. RECENT FINDINGS Detection of acute kidney injury relies on changes in serum creatinine and urea. These are not ideal and do not reflect genuine injury or real-time change...

Early diagnosis of acute kidney injury

There is a considerable lack of data concerning the diagnostic testing for kidney damage after surgical procedures. In this situation the most important variables should be examined with respect to their clinical informative value, the costs associated with their analysis, and their potential use in routine diagnostic testing. Forty patients in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU) with acute ...

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NGAL, the New Marker for Acute Kidney Injury