Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management
Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This guideline covers preventing, detecting and managing acute kidney injury in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve assessment and detection by non-specialists, and specifies when people should be referred to specialist services. This will improve early recognition and treatment, and reduce the risk of complications in people with acute kidney injury.
In September 2023, we amended recommendations on offering iodine-based contrast media to adults to clarify that, for non-emergency imaging, an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) measurement is only needed if the person is at increased risk of kidney injury. See the update information for details.
For additional information on managing acute kidney injury in patients in hospital with COVID-19, see assessing and managing acute kidney injury in our COVID-19 rapid guideline on managing COVID-19