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Management of Pediatric Kidney Stones
Acute Managment:
 • Pain relief: NSAIDs, opioids
 • Facilitating passage of stone:
Management of Pediatric ... Kidney Stones Acute ... Managment: • Pain ... : Liver and/or kidney ... #Stones #Management
UVJ Stone on Bladder Ultrasound

Bladder TRV clip shows right distal UVJ stone with twinkle artifact with
UVJ Stone on Bladder ... Ultrasound Bladder ... right distal UVJ stone ... RJonesSonoEM #UVJ #Stone ... #Bladder #Ultrasound
Medications for Recurrent Calcium Oxalate (CaOx) Stones
HYPERCALCIURIA
 • Thiazides: HCT, Indapamide, Chlorthalidone
 • Consider after first
Oxalate (CaOx) Stones ... - Single kidney ... - Large stone ... risk in CaPO4 stones ... Medications #Recurrent #Management
Increased Urination - Differential Diagnosis Framework - Increased Volume / Frequency
 • Increased osmotic load (Increased
mannitol), Chronic kidney ... • Inability of kidneys ... Isosthenuria): Chronic kidney ... calculi, Bladder ... Pelvic Muscle Tone
Medications causing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration: Diuretics
 • Altered intrarenal autoregulation: ACEIs / ARBs,
causing Acute Kidney ... methotrexate Postrenal -↓ bladder ... urinary sphincter tone ... #AKI #Acute #Kidney
Acute Kidney Injury - Differential Diagnosis Framework
PRERENAL:
 - Intrarenal vasoconstriction-hemodynamically mediated
 - Systemic vasodilation
 - Volume
Acute Kidney Injury ... urinalysis, labs - Management ... renal biopsy - Management ... - Intrarenal: stones ... appropriate) #Acute #Kidney
Lower Urinary Tract Infections: Complications
 - Infection damages the urinary tract epithelium causing fibroblast proliferation and
extends above the bladder ... Infection of the kidney ... urine -> Struvite stones
Outpatient Hypertension Management Algorithm
Monotherapy: 
 • Thiazide/thiazide-like 
 • ACE-I (non-black patients), 
 • ARB
Outpatient Hypertension Management ... Acute Ischemic Stoke ... Syndrome • Acute Kidney ... #Hypertension #Management
UVJ Stone on Bladder Ultrasound

A 30yo presents with ap and n/v. What additional poc us view
UVJ Stone on Bladder ... hydronephrosis of the right kidney ... 790999409110704128 #UVJ #Stone ... #Bladder #Ultrasound
Ureteral Calculus on Bladder POCUS
Echogenic calculus seen in the lower ureter. Twinkle artifact +. Ureteric jet
Ureteral Calculus on Bladder ... Ureteric jet also ... Ureteral #Calculus #Bladder ... POCUS #Ultrasound #stone