Perioperative Kidney Injury

Charuhas V. Thakar, MD, FASN, Chief, Renal Section, Cincinnati VA Healthcare System Associate Professor of Medicine University of Cincinnati OH 45242   Chirag R. Parikh, MD, PhD, FASN, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Program of Applied Translational Research, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519  

Part I Peri-operative AKI: Overview and Approach.- 1 Incidence, Trends and Diagnosis of Peri-operative AKI.- 2 Serious peri-operative complications: Hospital Medicine Perspectives.- 3 Role of Novel Kidney Injury Biomarkers in Perioperative AKI.- 4 Clinical Pearls: Renal Replacement Therapy for AKI in the Post-operative Period.- 5 Clinical Pearls: Non-dialytic Management of Kidney Complications in the Post-operative Period.- 6 Intra-Operative Considerations to Prevent Post-Operative AKI.- Part II Cardiac and Vascular Surgery.- 7 AKI after Cardiac Surgery in Adults.- 8 AKI after Cardiovascular Surgery in Children.- 9 AKI in the Era of Ventricular Assist Devices.- 10 Kidney Injury after Vascular Surgery.- Part III Abdominal and Urologic Surgery.- 11 AKI after Major Abdominal Surgery.- 12 Kidney Injury in Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- 13 Kidney Function and Injury after Nephrectomy for Kidney Cancer.- Part IV Transplant Surgery.- 14 The Kidney in Non-Renal Solid Organ Transplantation.- 15 Acute Allograft Injury After Kidney Transplantation.- Part V Special Topics in Peri-operative AKI.- 16 Trauma and Acute Kidney Injury.- 17 Fluid-Electrolyte Imbalances and Extra-Corporeal Therapy in the Neurosurgical Setting.- 18 Nutrition in Peri-operative Patients with Kidney Failure.