Nephrology Made Easy · Volume V
AKI & Critical Care
Nephrology
Made Easy
Dr. Tariq Zayan
An exam-ready, bedside-focused guide to acute kidney injury and critical care nephrology — from definition and diagnostic reasoning to sepsis, nephrotoxins, renal replacement therapy, pregnancy, poisonings, and shared decisions. Eighteen chapters, six learning phases, up to twenty-two levels each.
●Phase AOrientation & Knowledge
◆Phase BVisualise & Map
■Phase CClinical Reasoning
▲Phase DSafety & Evidence
★Phase EPatient Decisions
✓Phase FApply & Test
Contents
01Defining & StagingAcute Kidney Injury●◆■▲★✓02The Approach to AKIPre-renal · Intrinsic · Post-renal●◆■▲✓03Urinalysis & ImagingIndices, Sediment & POCUS in AKI●◆■▲✓04Pre-renal AzotaemiaVolume Depletion & the Fluid Prescription●◆■▲★✓05Hepatorenal SyndromeFunctional Kidney Failure in Cirrhosis●◆■▲★✓06Cardiorenal SyndromesCongestion, Decongestion & the Failing Heart●◆■▲★✓07Acute Tubular NecrosisIschaemic & Septic Injury●◆■▲★✓08Nephrotoxic AKIDrugs, Contrast & Pigments●◆■▲★✓09Acute Interstitial NephritisDrug Triggers, Steroids & the Biopsy●◆■▲★✓10AKI in Sepsis & the ICUResuscitation, Perfusion & Renal Support●◆■▲★✓11Perioperative AKIMajor Surgery, Cardiac Bypass & Trauma●◆■▲★✓12Rhabdomyolysis & Crystal AKIPigment, Tumour Lysis & the Crystal Nephropathies●◆■▲★✓13Initiating DialysisAKI: When, Which Modality & What Dose●◆■▲★✓14The Acute PrescriptionCRRT, SLED, Dose & Anticoagulation●◆■▲★✓15The AKI-to-CKD TransitionRecovery, Dialysis Dependence & Survivorship●◆■▲★✓16AKI in PregnancyPre-eclampsia, TMA & the Peripartum Kidney●◆■▲★✓17Drug Dosing & PoisoningsDosing in AKI, Dialysable Toxins & ECTR●◆■▲★✓18The Whole PatientGoals of Care, Conservative Care & Shared Decisions●◆■▲★✓