The nurse knows the patient is at risk for developing acute kidney injury (aki), which is known as prerenal. when elderly patient is in a motor vehicle accident and sustains a significant internal hemorrhage.
An abrupt decrease in kidney blood flow (renal hypoperfusion) results in a loss of kidney function, resulting in prerenal acute kidney injury (AKI), formerly known as acute renal failure. There is nothing wrong with the kidney itself in prerenal acute kidney injury.
Sepsis, dehydration, severe blood loss, cardiogenic shock, heart failure, cirrhosis, and some drugs like ACE inhibitors or NSAIDs are some of the prerenal causes of AKI. Unlike CKD, which develops slowly over many years, AKI is a rapid decrease of kidney function. Both include old age, diabetes, and high blood pressure as common risk factors.
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