Perioperative Kidney Injury

Part I Peri-operative AKI: Overview and Approach.- 1 Incidence, Trends and Diagnosis of Peri-operative AKI.- 2 Serious peri-operative complications: Hospital Medicine Perspectives.- 3 Role of Novel Kidney Injury Biomarkers in Perioperative AKI.- 4 Clinical Pearls: Renal Replacement Therapy for AKI in the Post-operative Period.- 5 Clinical Pearls: Non-dialytic Management of Kidney Complications in the Post-operative Period.- 6 Intra-Operative Considerations to Prevent Post-Operative AKI.- Part II Cardiac and Vascular Surgery.- 7 AKI after Cardiac Surgery in Adults.- 8 AKI after Cardiovascular Surgery in Children.- 9 AKI in the Era of Ventricular Assist Devices.- 10 Kidney Injury after Vascular Surgery.- Part III Abdominal and Urologic Surgery.- 11 AKI after Major Abdominal Surgery.- 12 Kidney Injury in Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- 13 Kidney Function and Injury after Nephrectomy for Kidney Cancer.- Part IV Transplant Surgery.- 14 The Kidney in Non-Renal Solid Organ Transplantation.- 15 Acute Allograft Injury After Kidney Transplantation.- Part V Special Topics in Peri-operative AKI.- 16 Trauma and Acute Kidney Injury.- 17 Fluid-Electrolyte Imbalances and Extra-Corporeal Therapy in the Neurosurgical Setting.- 18 Nutrition in Peri-operative Patients with Kidney Failure.

Charuhas V. Thakar, MD, FASN Chief, Renal Section, Cincinnati VA Healthcare System Associate Professor of Medicine University of Cincinnati OH 45242.

"Surgery residents, fellows, and surgeons at all stages of their careers will benefit from this book. In fact, anyone caring for surgical patients, including anesthesiologists, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, will find value in this book. ... It provides an easy to read review of kidney injury in surgical patients. There is no other resource that I'm aware of that presents this much information in one easy-to-understand book." (Luis J. Garcia, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2015)


"This textbook is effectively organized, well referenced, and offers an excellent means for any clinician to improve their clinical practice. Indeed, not one topic was missed or incompletely covered, and the evidence provided was thorough and up to date. I would recommend this book to any intensivist, perioperative physician, or surgeon." (Kelly Kohorst, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Journal canadien d'anesthésie, Vol. 62 (11), 2015)