Anne:
There was an item on AKI in BBC News last night, apparently from Derby City Hospital and introduced by some standard 'automated laboratory analyser footage'
However, please also see yesterday's Daily Mail front page - they really surpassed themselves with "Thousands die of thirst in the NHS", followed in the text by "use of a simple urine test to assess serum creatine [sic]", or essentially similar wordings . . .
In the interests of reliable UK patient care and to put an end to their persistent peddling of disinformation regarding "simple blood tests" etc, perhaps someone needs to take them aside and give them a (scientifically-justified) substantive k**k in the b******s?
Yours in frustration - I haven't checked NHS Choices on this, but prevention is better than repeated rebuttals (which their readers won't ever see)
David
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Subject: NICE AKI
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG169
NICE CG169 on Acute kidney injury: Prevention, detection and management of acute kidney injury up to the point of renal replacement therapy was published yesterday. Items of interest to many labs (e-alerts, creatinine-related issues) were not in scope and therefore not subjects for review, but they are discussed in the recommendations and link to evidence section of chapter 7 on the detection of AKI in the full guideline.
best wishes
Anne
Dr Anne Dawnay PhD FRCPath
Clinical Lead for Clinical Biochemistry
020 344 72954
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