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Treatment for acute kidney injury involves finding the illness or injury that damaged your kidneys. Your treatment depends on the cause. It might involve stopping a medicine that's damaging your kidneys.
General management principles for acute kidney injury include determination of volume status, fluid resuscitation with isotonic crystalloid, treatment of volume overload with diuretics,...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an abrupt and usually reversible decline in the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). This results in an elevation of serum blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, and other metabolic waste products that are normally excreted by the kidney.
Differentiate between prerenal, intrinsic renal, and postrenal causes of acute kidney injury, utilizing diagnostic tools and clinical assessment to guide appropriate treatment strategies.
Treatment for AKI depends on what caused it in the first place. This is why finding the cause is so important. Some most common approaches to treating AKI include: In most cases, dialysis treatments are only temporary until the kidneys can recover.
Treatment involves correcting the cause of acute kidney injury and sometimes doing dialysis. (See also Overview of Kidney Failure.)
Maintenance of volume homeostasis and correction of biochemical abnormalities remain the primary goals of treatment and may include the following measures: Furosemide can be used to correct...
Given the impact of the prognosis of AKI, it is important to recognize at-risk patients and improve preventive, diagnostic, and therapy strategies. The authors provide a comprehensive review on available diagnostic, preventive, and treatment strategies for AKI. Keywords: acute kidney injury, prevention, diagnosis, treatment. 1. Introduction.
How do doctors treat AKI? The treatment for AKI depends on the cause and severity. Some people need to be treated in a hospital and stay until their kidneys heal. Possible treatments include: If the AKI is severe and your kidneys completely stop working, going on dialysis for a short period of time.
The mainstay of treatment is supportive care, with management of the underlying illness; correction of acid/base, electrolyte, and volume complications; removal or minimization of nephrotoxins; and relief of any associated obstruction being key. Renal replacement therapy with dialysis may be required and is usually well tolerated.