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Joel Topf, MD: Acute Kidney Injury, Contrast-Associated Nephropathy, and Precious Bodily Fluids

The External Medicine Podcast

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Don't Give Venus Contrast if You Have a Kidney Infection

If you're looking for an abscess and this patient's going to die of their infection, give them the Venus contrast right like is there a risk of a KI yeah but there's a risk from sepsis. The real question is do I need contrast to make this diagnosis, and is making the diagnosis going to help the patient? And one of your, or maybe a few of your lectures you mentioned the drawing a parallel with thank a mice like a patient possibly has staff,. You give the bank of my son even if they have a low GFR because you're concerned about the staff infection and you'll deal with the kidney thing afterwards.

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