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Medications causing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration: Diuretics
 • Altered intrarenal autoregulation: ACEIs / ARBs,
Acute Kidney Injury ... #Kidney #Injury ... #Medications #Drugs ... #pharmacology # ... differential #diagnosis
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

PRE-Renal AKI:
 • Hypovolemia
 • Congestion
 • Medications
 •
Acute Kidney Injury ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Congestion • Medications ... Infection-mediated, Drug-induced ... #Kidney #Injury
Vancomycin Associated Acute Kidney Injury

 • Drug induced acute kidney injury is generally defined as a
Kidney Injury ... acute kidney injury ... Vancomycin #AKI #pharmacology ... #toxicology #diagnosis ... #management #nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury - Differential Diagnosis Framework
PRERENAL:
 - Intrarenal vasoconstriction-hemodynamically mediated
 - Systemic vasodilation
 - Volume
Acute Kidney Injury ... urinalysis, labs - Management ... Avoiding nephrotoxic drugs ... appropriate) #Acute ... #Kidney #Injury
Shock and Vasoactive Drugs 
1) Determine type and etiology of shock
 • Distributive: Sepsis, Anaphylaxis, Neurogenic
• Cardiogenic: Acute ... MI, Acute Heart ... inopressors #diagnosis ... #management #comparison ... #table
Neonatal Resuscitation – Circulation and Drugs
Consider drugs (k) if heart rate beats/min in spite of adequate
rate beats/min in spite ... vasoconstriction may have had acute ... haemorrhage or acute ... #Medications #Pharmacology ... #management #peds
Drug Induced Liver Injury (DILI) - Stepwise Diagnosis Algorithm
DILI suspicion
Features toxic aetiology: Skin involvement, Kidney injury,
Stepwise Diagnosis ... Skin involvement, Kidney ... duration), Several medications ... dechallenge • Acute ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) Clinical Guidelines

ACLF = possibly reversible condition in those with CLD (± cirrhosis)
Acute-on-Chronic ... Circulation Failure Kidney ... Hepatitis (AAH) Drug-Induced ... Liver Injury (DILI ... #diagnosis
Neurological Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Acute dystonia - Spasm of muscles of tongue, face, neck, back
Acute dystonia ... Antiparkinsonian agents are diagnostic ... reduction; change medication ... #pharmacology # ... management
Numerous drugs taken by elderly persons can affect water balance by direct action on the kidney
Numerous drugs taken ... action on the kidney ... (Table IV). ... #Diagnosis #Pharmacology ... #Hyponatremia #Medications