A personal story of how a 7 year old boy’s holiday food poisoning led to acute kidney injury. Read his story here
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Understanding what the public know about their kidneys
Think Kidneys commissioned a survey from Ipsos MORI. The aim was to give us an understanding of the level of knowledge amongst the general public about their kidneys and what they do. Find out more by reading our report here.
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Transmitting AKI Warning Stage Data to the UK Renal Registry
Think Kidneys publishes Guidance on how to transmit acute kidney injury warning stage data to the UK Renal Registry. Read the document here
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Working in Acute Medicine and Recognising Acute Kidney Injury
The Festive Period for the Acute Medicine services in my area of the country (and indeed in others) has been frantic to levels that I cannot recall. More patients are being admitted to the acute medical beds and beyond, as the walls of the medical wards stretch to accommodate the beds within the surgical establishment. This so called boarding of patients is never satisfactory and indeed…
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Raising the Kidney from Retroperitoneal to Cerebral in Primary Care
Primary care is in the news almost every day, often with negative comments about GP surgeries not being open long enough or not coping with the increasing patient burden. The NHS is stretched and primary care is the first door through which many patients pass. Every day GPs have to deal with an enormous range of diseases from the self-limiting to the life threatening. Unlike many…
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