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REBOOT #146 Pain Meds in CKD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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What Is the Egf R of a Kidney Injury?

A, it takes the creatnin and it uses their weight and ethnicity and all these factors and puts out a number. And that that helps us sort of gauge what theirne function is. Ah, but it's sort ofa you need to understand, is this severe kidney function declined. So for instance, the patient has e g f r 17. That's pretty, pretty poor kidney function. Then you look at the other say, 30 a, still very, very depressed kidney function, andten, 60 a, that thatsort of gets you to see nephologist,. so that youo just sort of understand that.

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