Laboratory Role In Acute Kidney Injury

The speaker for laboratory’s role in acute kidney injury risk assessment was Denise Geiger, PhD, DLM (ASCP).The objective is to describe the laboratory’s role in acute kidney injury risk assessment, gain insight on how new biomarkers can improve clinical decisions and provide high value patient outcomes, and examine clinical research and applications of novel biomarkers for the assessment of AKI. The speaker was very detailed about this topic, but I only had what I can recall. I decided to go to this session because it’s something new that I’ve on no occasion heard about, and it seem like the next big thing to CLS/MLS in laboratory to look forward to doing on the job in the future. Acute kidney injury is a syndrome that results of a decrease in the kidney to function properly or damage to the kidney for hours or days. The AKI is causes from the waste in the blood stream that makes it difficult for the kidney to filter, and keep up the balance of fluid that the body requires. The decrease in kidney function may be detected in an elevated serum creatinine or low in urine. Other causes that could cause the injury could be problem from low blood volume from the heart, or …show more content…
I’ve also learned the important role that clinical laboratory has on patient by help alert and improve patient with early diagnosis of AKI. The early diagnosis of AKI is very important and can help save many patients who are at risk by reducing the AKI risk with the proper treatment. Since this new biomarker discovery, many laboratories through the U.S. are now given the opportunity and provided with the appropriate tool and technology to help assess their patients with early risk or at risk of AKI. With this opportunity, it offers new testing menu to laboratory to give to their patients and more research