{"id":4106,"date":"2020-04-22T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/resources\/aki-cases\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:42:16","slug":"aki-cases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/aki-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"AKI cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Introduction<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Acute renal failure (ARF) has been rebadged as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in order to include lesser degrees of renal dysfunction which are prognostically important because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early intervention can prevent progression to more severe and longer-lasting kidney injury.<\/li>\n<li>Even minor degrees of AKI in hospital inpatients are associated with higher morbidity and mortality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some cases to test yourself on. They are aimed at senior medical student\/ early post-qualification doctor level.\u00a0 They were written by doctors Vinnie Dolan and John Neary, Jessica Mcniff and Hannah Douglas.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 86.45%; border-collapse: collapse;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 35.1708%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/resources\/aki-cases\/aki-case\/\">Case 1 &#8211; Low Urine Output<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/resources\/aki-cases\/aki-case-swollen-ankles\/\">Case 2 &#8211; Swollen Ankles<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/aki-cases\/aki-case-aches-and-pains\/\">Case 3 &#8211; Aches and Pains<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/aki-cases\/aki-case-man-with-a-broken-heart\/\">Case 4 &#8211; Man with a Broken Heart<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/aki-cases\/the-oliguric-patient\/\">Case 5 &#8211; The Oliguric Patient<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/aki-cases\/aki-the-sick-gentleman\/\">Case 6 &#8211; The Sick Gentleman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 51.1592%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/AKIcase-main.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4270 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/AKIcase-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/AKIcase-main.jpg 200w, https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/AKIcase-main-128x150.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Acute renal failure (ARF) has been rebadged as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in order to include lesser degrees of renal dysfunction which are prognostically important because: Early intervention can prevent progression to more severe and longer-lasting kidney injury. Even minor degrees of AKI in hospital inpatients are associated with\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/education\/aki-cases\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4106\/revisions\/5273"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}