Renal Flashcards
5 characters for pre-renal impairment?
- Deceased BF
- Low BP
- HF
- Hepatorenal syndrome
- Toxins
What is used to buy time during definitive treatment?
Dialysis
Form of impaired kidney function that occurs in individuals with advanced liver disease. Do not have any identifiable cause of kidney dysfunction and the kidneys themselves are not structural damaged.
Hepatoreanl syndrome (HRS)
What 3 things/tests are used to evaluate renal function?
- Serum creatinine
- Creatinine clearance
- Blood urea nitrogen (BUN)
Non-protein nitrogenous waste product that is produced by the breakdown of creatine do to the normal wear and tear on muscles of the body
Creatinine
A rise in serum creatinine levels is a late marker, observed only with marked damage to what?
Functioning nephrons
Serum creatinine levels may increase or decrease when an ACEI is taken for HF and renal insufficiency?
Increase
Normal serum creatinine values for men and women?
Men: .8-1.3 mg/dL
Women: .6-1 mg/dL
The higher the blood creatinine level, the lower the what are (2)?
- Estimated GFR
2. Creatinine clearance
Amount of blood the kidneys can make creatinine free each minute
Creatinine clearance
Creatinine clearance helps to estimate what?
GFR
GFR increase or decrease with age?
Decrease
Normal creatinine clearance in men and women?
Men: 97-137 ml/min
Women: 88-128 ml/min
Why do men have greater creatinine clearance?
Because greater muscle mass
Is creatinine reabsorbed?
NO
As renal function declines, creatinine clearance goes up or down?
Down
2 main ways to use creatinine tests to measure kidney function?
- Measure amount of creatinine present in urine sample over 24 hrs
- GFR estimated by single blood level
Creatinine clearance formula
(140-pts age) x (wt) x (1(men) or .85(women)) / 72 x serum creatinine level
GFR 90 or greater
Stage 1
GFR 60-89
Stage 2
GFR 45-59
Stage 3a
GFR 30-44
Stage 3b
GFR 15-29 (preparation transplant)
Stage 4
GFR <15 (require dialysis)
Stage 5
Is a waste product formed in liver when protein is metabolized into amino acids to produce ammonia
Urea
Urea is released by the liver into the blood and is carried to the kidneys, where it is filtered out of the blood and released into the what?
Urine
Is there a small but stable amount of urea nitrogen in the blood?
Yes
Renal function decreases, BUN level rise or falls?
Rise
Significant liver damage or disease inhibits the production of urea, then BUN concentrations may rise or fall?
Fall
Normal BUN values?
10-20 mg/dL
Is BUN a reliable indicator of GFR?
NO
Greater than what BUN value indicate renal impairment?
50
Normal BUN:Creatinine ratios?
10: 1
20: 1
Abrupt deterioration in kidney function with an increase in serum creatinine level with or without reduced urine output
Acute kidney injury
Decreased renal perfusion (often from hypovolemia) leading to decrease in GFR
Prerenal AKI
Is prerenal AKI reversible?
YES
Intrinsic kidney damage; acute tubular necrosis most common due to ischemic/nephrotoxic injury
Intrarenal AKI
Extrinsic/intrinsic obstruction of the urinary collection system
Postrenal AKI
AKI is usually what classification?
Prerenal
Oliguria in adults:
Too much pee
<400cc/day
Anuria
Too little pee
<100 cc/day
Most common causes of death in AKI (3)?
- Sepsis
- CV dysfunction
- Pulmonary complications
Management of AKI (3)?
- Fluid resuscitation
- Avoid nephrotoxic medications and contrast media exposure
- Correction of electrolyte imbalances
2 main steps to drug dosing considerations with renal impairment:
- Estimate ECF volume
- Tailoring drug dosing to estimate the creatinine clearance (since rate of elimination of drugs excreted bu kidneys is proportional to GFR)
If ECF is contracted, increase or decrease loading dose?
Decrease
If ECF is expanded, increase or decrease loading dose?
Increase