Barb Bancroft’s Clinical Topics for Faculty, Nurses and Students Renal Update and Overview: To Pee or Not to Pee

8:50 AM –1:45 PM (Central Time Zone)

You won’t believe the number of historical uses for urine—using puppy urine for softening calluses on hands, to tasting urine to test for diabetes, to pouring warm, nanny goat urine into the ears to relieve “painful rigidity of the neck”, to drinking one’s own urine for “urotherapy”…and more. The kidney has six functions and Barb will discuss each and every one of those functions, correlated with the signs and symptoms of acute and chronic kidney disease. What happens to the “geriatric kidney”? What are the major causes of kidney disease and can we prevent kidney disease by treating the major causes? The answer to that question? Yes and no. Sign up and find out why. Learn how to interpret the UACR ratio, the eGFR, the BUN and Creatinine, the Cockroft-Gault equation, the MDRD equation, proteinuria, the urinalysis, hematuria and so much more. Barb will discuss pre-renal causes of kidney disease, intra-renal cause of kidney disease, and post-renal causes of kidney disease. How does a big ol’ prostate contribute to renal failure? What’s the newest information on kidney stones? Why don’t we treat asymptomatic bacteriuria? And what is the function of estrogen in maintaining a healthy genitourinary tract in women? Interested? Sign up!