microvascular complication of diabetes that impacts the kidneys.
What is diabetic nephropathy?
Removal of kidney for renal cancer.
What is nephrectomy?
Lab value that indicated renal impairment and is produced from the breakdown of muscle and proteins.
What is the serum creatinine?
Underlying causes of AKI.
What is reduced perfusion, kidney damage, or obstructed urine flow?
bacterial infection that causes fever, chills, tachycardia, tachypnea, loin pain, flank pain, nausea, vomiting and frequency
What is pyelonephritis?
Imaging studies of the renal system.
What is ultrasound, KUB (kidney, ureter, bladder), IV Pyelography (IVP), CT, MRI, •Cystography and cystourethrography, Cystoscopy/Cystourethroscopy, and renal scan?
Impacts to the kidneys in older adults.
What are hormonal, functional, vascular, and polypharmacy?
Onset phase, oliguric phase, diuretic phase and recovery phase.
What are the stages of AKI (acute kidney injury)?
Signs of urinary tract infection in older adults?
What are changes to LOC, nausea, dysuria, urgency?
Urinary tract obstruction, renal calculi, tumors, BPH, urinary strictures, and blood clots.
What are postrenal causes of AKI?
Biggest risk of peritoneal dialysis.
What is peritonitis?
Measures the effectiveness of the kidneys in excreting nitrogen (by-product of protein breakdown in the liver).
What BUN (blood urea nitrogen)?
Classic triad for renal cancer.
What is flank mass, flank pain, and hematuria?
Medical management for AKI.
What are remove underlying causes, diuretics, diet, correct fluid and electrolyte imbalances, and dialysis?
Explain the 2 types of dialysis.
What is hemodialysis where patients have a graft or shunt, and blood is run through dialyzer to remove toxins and peritoneal dialysis where dialysate is instilled in the peritoneal cavity and then removed to rid toxins?