Listen to LtCol Ian Stewart, USAF, MC, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a practicing Nephrologist at the David Grant United Airforce Medical Center explain the “Hyperkalemia and Dialysis in a Deployed Setting” Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG). The following topics are discussed by LtCol Stewart in this podcast:
- Primary causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) & Hyperkalemia in the deployed setting
- Risk factors for AKI and Hyperkalemia in combat casualties
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Use of Renal Replacement Therapy prior to transport to a higher echelon of care
- Monitoring practices in casualties with AKI
- Criteria for transfer to a higher echelon of care for casualties with AKI
- Current Research on AKI
- Initial Treatments for AKI and hyperkalemia
- Acute Peritoneal Dialysis
- Methods available for Renal Replacement Therapy at different echelons of care
- NxStage® System One TM Renal Replacement Therapy system
- Catheter placement
- Replacement fluids and rates
- UltraFiltration
- Difference between NxStage® System One TM and peritoneal dialysis
- Performance improvement monitoring
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