What is an Acute Kidney Injury? | AKI Explained | Pathophysiology / Med Surg | Lecturio Nursing

In this video “What is an Acute Kidney Injury? | AKI Explained” you will learn to:
►Distinguish acute kidney injury (acute renal failure) from chronic kidney disease
►Recognize the normal appearance of a kidney versus an injured kidney, and tell how a kidney is designed to function
►Recognize the key signs and criteria for a diagnosis of acute kidney injury
►Specify the normal range of serum creatinine in male and female patients
►Recognize that serum creatinine provides an estimate of the glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by telling how well the kidneys are able to filter

00:00 How does a normal kidney function?
01:30 What does a kidney with acute kidney injury look like?
01:45 What does kidney failure look like?
02:34 What is Acute Kidney Injury?
03:45 Acute Kidney Injury Criteria
05:00 Normal Levels of Serum Creatinine

► This video is part of the Lecturio course “Med-Surg/Pathophysiology”

► THE PROF: Dr. Rhonda Lawes is a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing in Oklahoma, USA.
She obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology from Oklahoma State University in 2016.
Due to her achievements, she has earned numerous teaching awards. She teaches nursing students how to use the science of cognitive learning to maximize their study effectiveness.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Lawes is the Director of Nursing Education Programs, and teaches courses on Pharmacology (Nursing), Medical Surgical Nursing and Pathophysiology.

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