Category: Pediatric AKI
November 30, 2016
Results of Award/Oral/ Poster Presentations at ISPN Annual Conference Cuttack
The results of the Award/ Oral/ Poster presentations for the 28th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Pediatric Nephrology are now out. Please check this attachment here. I shall be speaking on Feasibility & Tolerability of SLED [Sustained Low Efficiency Dialysis] in children.
November 28, 2016
An excellent study on Pediatric AKI from Srinagar
Current Issue of Saudi Journal of Kidney Disease & Transplantation has an excellent paper on Pediatric AKI from Srinagar, India. The incidence of pAKI in general was 0.8%, whereas it was 4% in critically ill children and 0.5% in general ward admissions implying an eight-fold increased risk of pAKI in critically ill patients.
November 24, 2016
Excellent study on Pediatric AKI in today’s NEJM
Today’s NEJM has an excellent Original Article from Dr Goldstein’s group on Pediatric AKI- the results of the AWARE study. It also has an Editorial on it. Â This large, prospective, multinational study of the epidemiology of acute kidney injury in children and young adults in ICUs showed that acute kidney injury occurred in one quarter