Mitigating Acute Kidney Injury – Learn from these Rockstars

Speaker:
Anezi Uzendu, MD - Interventional Cardiology, Mid America Heart Institute
Ellen Kenneally, BA, BSN, RN - Nurse Manager - Registry Site Manager, Northwell Health
Moderator:
Kate Malish, PharmD - Director, CathPCI and Chest Pain-MI Registries, American College of Cardiology 

Description:
Join this session to learn about the NEW acute kidney injury risk model from the lead investigator!  How it was built (and why), what patient variables matter most and how to leverage the risk-standardized acute kidney injury metric to identify opportunities for decreasing the incidence of AKI. You’ll also hear from one site who initiated strategies effective in mitigating the incidence of post-PCI procedure kidney injury at their facility, can they benefit your team?

• Discuss the relevance of patient characteristics and kidney injury.
• Identify one initiative to mitigate AKI.