What is your approach to weaning dialysis in a patient with AKI on CKD and CHF who now has resolved AKI but a history of recurrent episodes of decompensated heart failure?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
My preference would be to keep them on dialysis. If the serum creatinine is really getting toward the normal range and urine output is good, I would just stop dialysis for a week and give them diuretics to see if they can do without dialysis. However in patients with creatinine levels in the higher ...
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at Valley Nephrology Associates Certainly try diuretics, but keep an eye on potass...
Certainly try diuretics, but keep an eye on potass...