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Following production of resources for general practice to raise awareness and skills in managing AKI warning stage test results, we have worked with the RCGP to develop a new online AKI module. The accredited module, which takes around 30 minutes to complete, considers that over half of incidences of AKI begin in the community and describes which patients are at greater risk of AKI, how to…
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Dr Miles D Witham, Clinical Reader in Ageing and Health, University of Dundee and Consultant Geriatrician, NHS Tayside It’s handover time in your local care home. “Mr Smith isn’t doing so well the last couple of days. He’s not joined the other residents in the dining area, and he’s taken to his bed. I couldn’t even wake him up this morning for his medications.” “Has he…
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust launched STOP AKI on 11 April. Andy Lewington and colleagues at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust presented to medics and nursing staff their improvement work called ‘STOP AKI’. The aim of the event was to raise awareness of AKI within the organisation – how it can be better prevented, treated and managed. The team is now rolling out the programme across…
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The Think Kidneys Programme Board have produced a position statement on the use of oliguria to detect AKI.
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The acutely unwell patient with diabetes; thinking kidneys in primary and secondary care Last month, I was delighted to introduce the first ever session at the Diabetes UK conference on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Diabetes, initiated by the British Kidney Patient Association. Following the launch of the first NICE AKI guidelines in 2013 (to which I was pleased to be able to contribute as a…
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