Kidney Disease Management

Kidney Disease Management This informative book has been put together with the support and input of many clinical renal experts, who have been willing to share their knowledge and years of experience and I m sure it will be an excellent resource for those caring for kidney patients for the first time as well as for those with some years of experience! From the Foreword by Rosemary Macri, Chief Executive of the British Kidney Patient Association Kidney Disease Management: A Practical Approach for the Non-Specialist Healthcare Practitioner has been written to help optimise the care of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) across the healthcare spectrum. It is aimed at a range of professionals, including nurses, junior doctors, general practitioners, pharmacists and dietitians. Specialists in training may also find it useful. It highlights the practical considerations necessary to care for people with kidney problems in situations where a specialist practitioner is not always required or immediately available. This book explores policy context and CKD, overview of CKD and management, managing CKD in primary care, treatment modalities in CKD, psychosocial aspects of living with CKD, acute kidney injury in hospitalised patients, surgery and kidney injury, medication management in CKD, nutrition and CKD, and support and palliative care for people with CKD. Key features: Based on best practice and written in an accessible format aimed at busy practitioners Emphasises the centrality of the patient and family and the need to share information and expertise across traditional boundaries Written by professionals renowned in their field, both generalists and specialists, who have extensive experience of the practicalities of managing complex patients

Kidney Disease Management"This informative book has been put together with the support and input of many clinical renal experts, who have been willing to share their knowledge and years of experience and I'm sure it will be an excellent resource for those caring for kidney patients for the first time - as well as for those with some years of experience!"From the Foreword by Rosemary Macri, Chief Executive of the British Kidney Patient AssociationKidney Disease Management: A Practical Approach for the Non-Specialist Healthcare Practitioner has been written to help optimise the care of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) across the healthcare spectrum. It is aimed at a range of professionals, including nurses, junior doctors, general practitioners, pharmacists and dietitians. Specialists in training may also find it useful. It highlights the practical considerations necessary to care for people with kidney problems in situations where a specialist practitioner is not always required or immediately available.This book explores policy context and CKD, overview of CKD and management, managing CKD in primary care, treatment modalities in CKD, psychosocial aspects of living with CKD, acute kidney injury in hospitalised patients, surgery and kidney injury, medication management in CKD, nutrition and CKD, and support and palliative care for people with CKD.Key features:* Based on best practice and written in an accessible format aimed at busy practitioners* Emphasises the centrality of the patient and family and the need to share information and expertise across traditional boundaries* Written by professionals renowned in their field, both generalists and specialists, who have extensive experience of the practicalities of managing complex patients

Contributors viiForeword xiDavid Colin-ThoméForeword xiiRosemary MacriIntroduction: Managing Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease inNon-Specialist Areas: A Chronic Illness Approach xiiiRachel Lewis1 Managing Chronic Conditions: The Policy Context 1Beverley Matthews2 What Non-Specialists Need to Know about Chronic Kidney Disease12Graham Woodrow, Jeanette Denning and David Lewis3 A Practical Approach to Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care31Hugh Rayner, Rajib Pal and Indranil Dasgupta4 General Considerations Related to Treatment Modalities52Aisha I. Geeson, Charles R. V. Tomson and Lesley Lappin5 Psychosocial Aspects of Living with Chronic Kidney Disease76Emma Coyne6 Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalised Patients 101Keith Harkins, Rachel Lewis and Rachel Hilton7 Management of Patients with or at Risk of Kidney Disease onthe Surgical Ward 122Colin H. Jones and Maggie Higginbotham8 Medication Management and Chronic Kidney Disease 143Aileen Dunleavy9 Optimising Nutrition in People with Chronic Kidney Disease169Helena Jackson and Sally Noble10 Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with AdvancedKidney Disease 194Sheila Johnston, Helen Noble and Rachel LewisIndex 213