{"id":5401,"date":"2021-02-02T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/?page_id=5401"},"modified":"2024-06-28T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:55:38","slug":"gp-faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/gp-info\/gp-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Kidney FAQs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The answers to most common questions can be found somewhere on our Edren site.\u00a0 Here are links to pages that relevant to the most common questions arising in primary care:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>summary overview of approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/ckd-summary-overview\/\">CKD<\/a><\/li>\n<li>all our other <a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/ckd\/\">CKD<\/a> pages (including pages on eGFR, <a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/ckd\/proteinuria\/\">proteinuria<\/a>, haematuria, <a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/ckd\/lab-testing-in-kidney-disease\/\">monitoring of CKD<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/blood-pressure-and-cardiovascular-disease\/\">blood pressure<\/a> and cardiovascular risk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/prescribing\/\">prescribing<\/a> for patients with kidney disease (including ACEi \/ antibiotics)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/fluids-and-electrolytes\/hyperkalaemia-outpatient\/\">hyperkalaemia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/diabetic-kidney-disease\/\">diabetic kidney disease<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/ckd\/renal-cysts-how-to-evaluate\/\">abnormal imaging: renal cysts<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; how to evaluate patients found to have renal cysts on imaging<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/ckd\/abnormal-imaging-everything-else\/\">abnormal imaging: everything else<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/edren-info\/polycystic-kidney-disease-pkd\/got-pkd\/\">PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease)<\/a> &#8211; including information about Tolvaptan treatment at <a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/edren-info\/polycystic-kidney-disease-pkd\/got-pkd\/\">www.edren.org\/ren\/<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/edren-info\/polycystic-kidney-disease-pkd\/got-pkd\/\">gotpkd<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/edren-info\/diet-in-chronic-kidney-disease\/\">dietiary advice<\/a> for patients with kidney disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro';\">There is a vast amount of information elsewhere on Edren:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/edren-info\/\">EdRen Info<\/a>: <span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro';\">information about kidney diseases for patients, doctors and all medical staff<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/\">the EdRen Handbooks<\/a>:<span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro';\">\u00a0information aimed primarily at hospital doctors about immediate management of renal problems<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrep.org\">the EdRep site<\/a>: medical education materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kidney FAQs The answers to most common questions can be found somewhere on our Edren site.\u00a0 Here are links to pages that relevant to the most common questions arising in primary care: summary overview of approach to CKD all our other CKD pages (including pages on eGFR, proteinuria, haematuria, monitoring\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/gp-info\/gp-faqs\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":2267,"menu_order":149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5401","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5401\/revisions\/6461"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}