Management of Acute Renal Failure in Children


It is now 9am and you visit the patient back on the ward.

Despite an initial response to the furosemide he has not passed any urine for the last 3 hours.

Some routine bloods have been done for you by the nurses:

Haemoglobin 5.8 g/dl
WCC 28 x 109/l
Platelets 12 x 109/l
Sodium 141 mmol/l
Potassium 7.2 mmol/l
Urea 27 mmol/l
Creatinine 232 µmol/l
Bicarbonate 14 mmol/l
Calcium 1.8 mmol/l
Phosphate 2.4 mmol/l
Albumin 24 g/l

What would you do now?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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