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Normal creatinine levels? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Male: 0.6-1.2
Female: 0.5-1.1
Normal GFR? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔90-120ml/min
At which GFR level does dialysis begin? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔15
S/S of acute glomerulonephritis? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Headache, increased
BP, facial edema, malaise, low grade fever, weight fain, proteinuria,
hematuria, and oliguria
S/S of chronic glomerulonephritis? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Proteinuria and
hematuria
,Lab findings for glomerulonephritis? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Increased BUN, CR
Decreased albuminin
Common s\e of hemodialysis? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Hypotension due to all of
the blood and fluids leaving the body
Nephrotic syndrome s\s - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔SEVERE proteinuria
MASSIVE edema
Hypertension, foamy urine, anasarca, ascites
Why might medication doses be decreased for a patient with kidney
issues? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Due to medications not being excreted through
kidneys
Prerenal causes - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Due to decreased blood flow to kidneys
Cardiovascular disorders, hypovolemia, peripheral vasodilation, renal
vascular obstructions, severe vasoconstriction
Intrarenal causes - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Due to damage to the gumeruli,
interstitial tissue or tubules (parynchymal damage)
Acute tubular necrosis, exposure to nephrotoxins, acute GNP, SLE,
obstetric complications, and malignant hypertension
, Post renal causes - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Obstruction to the urine collecting
system
BPH
Phases of AKI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Oliguric
Diuretic
Recovery (if not then CKD may develop)
Oliguric Phase - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Urinary changes (output less than
400ml/day)
Lasts 10-14 days
Neck veins distended, bounding pulse, edema, hypertension
Increased potassium (causing heart issues!)
Diuretic Phase - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Daily urine output 1-3 liters may reach 5L
or more
Monitor for hyponatremia, hypokalemia, and dehydration as well as
hypotension
This phase may last 1-3 weeks
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