Episode 286 – Rafael Medina Subspecialty Series – Elevated Creatinine
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The Bilateral Edema: Acute or Chronic?
The temperature was 39.9 Fahrenheit, heart rate 92, blood pressure 136 over 76 respiratory rate 18 and 97% of room wear. No murmurs, rubs or gallops, lungs, clear trust, mutation, abdominal tender, no distended, and the neurological exam were pretty much vulnerable. And the spatial had edema up to, I guess, the means on the fiscal exam. The whiteboard count was 8.7, the hemoglobin 11.5, the plate looks 369, sodium 138 potassium 5 chloride 98 bicarb 20, B-wane 44 and the creatinine 6.4 being 1.23 months prior. So my questions would be, what would
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Dr. Ashita Tolwani, Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She was the Nephrology Fellowship Training Program Director from 2004-2010 and is now the Associate Program Director. She is also the Director for ICU Nephrology at UAB. (Twitter: luck_urine)
