Acute Kidney Injury and Hyperkalemia: Critical Management in the ED and ICU

This EMCREG-International On the Go program serves as a state of the art evaluation of acute renal failure with resulting hyperkalemia for practicing emergency physicians, hospitalists, and intensivists. The four faculty members presenting in this symposium are experts dual trained in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. Through this critical care approach to the evaluation and treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI) and resulting hyperkalemia, clinicians caring for these patients in the acute care setting (ED and ICU) will be better prepared to mitigate further kidney injury and treat life-threatening hyperkalemia. The four faculty members will discuss the causes of AKI, comprehensive treatment of hyperkalemia, improving cardiovascular management of critically ill patients to minimize AKI, and early ventilator management in the emergency patient to reduce hypoxia which can further damage the kidneys.