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Launch of Work with Care Homes to Improve Awareness of Acute Kidney Injury

Added: 30/01/2017
News

For the last 18 months Think Kidneys has been working to develop practical resources to raise awareness and help with the prevention, detection and management of AKI in care homes and today we launch this work on the website. The work was done by a cross-professional group comprising health care assistants, nurses, dieticians, care home managers, commissioners, hydration specialists and academics. We know that around 65%…

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Think Kidneys Supports AKI Frontiers Conference

Added: 23/01/2017
News

The Think Kidneys AKI team is pleased to support the AKI Frontiers conference this year being held on Friday 31 March at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. On the day Richard Fluck, Chair of the Think Kidneys AKI programme will review and provide an evaluation of the national programme to improve care for people at risk of, or with AKI, which formally concludes at…

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Think Kidneys Resources Signposted by RCGP

Added: 13/01/2017
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The 2016 Research Paper of the Year published by the RCGP is entitled – “Self management of chronic kidney disease”. The paper signposts readers to the Think Kidneys resources on the website, in respect to managing patients with CKD who are known to be at increased risk of complications during episodes of acute illness. The resources referred to on the website at www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk are primarily for…

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My involvement in Think Kidneys

Added: 12/12/2016
Blog

by Charlie Tomson, Consultant Nephrologist and Co-Chair of the Intervention workstream What am I doing leading the Intervention workstream of the Think Kidneys Acute Kidney Injury programme? Good question. It’s certainly not because I have special expertise or research experience in the finer points of AKI pathophysiology or management.  What little original research I’ve done has been more focused on avoiding late referrals in CKD. However,…

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