Nephrology

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Health care professionals working in Nephrology will benefit from clinical calculators and decision support tools found in Calculate by QxMD.

 

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A selection of relevant tools includes

eGFR (MDRD, CKD-EPI, Cockcroft-Gault)

Kidney Failure Risk Equation

Water deficit in Hypernatremia

Osmolal Gap in Potential Overdoses

Peritoneal Dialysis Tools

• Access Care and Complications Manual including detailed content on management of PD catheters and infectious peritonitis
• PD Prescription Guide with calculator to assist in determining the PD prescription and extensive manual to learn principles behind PD dose, adequacy and modelling.
• Rapid Access to Clinical Practice Guidelines including CSN PD Adequacy Guidelines and Recommendations 2011, ISPD PD-Related Infections Recommendations 2010 and ISPD Guidelines for Peritoneal Access
• Quick Assessessment of PD Candidacy using the MATCH-D tool

Estimate the risk dialysis after angiography or cardiovascular surgery

Estimate 6 month mortality of hemodialysis

Assess home dialysis (HHD and PD) candidacy using MATCH-D

Calculate creatine clearance based on a 24 hour urine collection

Calculate fractional excretion of sodium or fractional excretion of urea

Calculate URR and Kt/V in dialysis patients

Estimate the risk of progression in membranous nephropathy

Calculate TTKG (transtubular potassium gradient)

Henderson-Hasselbach equation

Calculate access recirculation

Adjust phenytoin levels in renal failure