Main Renal Unit Handbook

Welcome to the Edren Main Unit Handbook.  This contains Edinburgh’s internal protocols, written for a professional audience.  (See also our other unit handbooks for transplant, dialysis and prescribing protocols.)  Contents are listed below:

• AKI
  • AKI (for nephrologists)
  • AKI (for the generalist)
• Blood pressure and cardiovascular disease
  • Blood pressure in kidney disease
  • Blood pressures in children
  • Hyperlipidaemia
• CKD (assessment and general management)
  • GFR estimation
  • Gout and hyperuricaemia
  • CKD summary overview
  • Haematuria – macroscopic
  • Haematuria – microscopic
  • Proteinuria
• CKD (advanced management)
  • Acute coronary syndromes in CKD
  • Anaemia in CKD
  • CKD-MBD (Mineral Bone Disease)
  • Coding (EDTA-ERA codes)
  • Pregnancy and Renal Disease
• Conservative care of advanced CKD
• COVID-19
• Fluids, electrolytes, diet
  • Diet in renal disease
  • Fluid and electrolyte replacement in renal failure
  • Fluid Therapy
  • Hypercalcaemia
  • Hyperkalaemia (inpatient)
  • Hyperkalaemia (outpatient)
• Individual kidney diseases
  • Diabetic Kidney Disease
  • Nephrotic syndrome
  • PKD
  • SLE
  • Stone disease
  • UTI
  • Vasculitis (and anti-GBM disease)
• Infection and Infection Control
• Poisoning
• Procedures, radiology, surgery
  • Kidney biopsy
  • Radiology
  • Surgery in ESKD
• Renal Unit Contacts