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Remember the conversion factor between mg/dl and mols/l is different for each test.
 
Yep it is. I think you use Mmol/L. I think that depends on the atomic weight of the thing being measured. Which varies.
 
TheBigNewt said:
Yep it is. I think you use Mmol/L. I think that depends on the atomic weight of the thing being measured. Which varies.
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In the part of the U.K. that I live, the CC needs to be very accurate for cancer chemotherapy, it is therefore common practise for the patient to have an EDTA test - nuclear medicine. It seems differing practises in differing places.
Daily U&E's do still revolve around creatinine, for inpatients.
If eGFR is under 59 it will be stated in whole numbers.
ACR is done regularly for diabetics - NICE guidelines are issued.
AKI (prev aka acute renal failure,) "is now mostly based on monitoring creatinine levels," NICE.
Hope this may clarify.
 
Struma said:
In the part of the U.K. that I live, the CC needs to be very accurate for cancer chemotherapy, it is therefore common practise for the patient to have an EDTA test - nuclear medicine. It seems differing practises in differing places.
Daily U&E's do still revolve around creatinine, for inpatients.
If eGFR is under 59 it will be stated in whole numbers.
ACR is done regularly for diabetics - NICE guidelines are issued.
AKI (prev aka acute renal failure,) "is now mostly based on monitoring creatinine levels," NICE.
Hope this may clarify.
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It might, if only I understood half the abreviations!

My eGFR is stated in whole numbers when it is under 90.
 
Struma said:
In the part of the U.K. that I live, the CC needs to be very accurate for cancer chemotherapy, it is therefore common practise for the patient to have an EDTA test - nuclear medicine. It seems differing practises in differing places.
Daily U&E's do still revolve around creatinine, for inpatients.
If eGFR is under 59 it will be stated in whole numbers.
ACR is done regularly for diabetics - NICE guidelines are issued.
AKI (prev aka acute renal failure,) "is now mostly based on monitoring creatinine levels," NICE.
Hope this may clarify.
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Sure, I get it. Where I work, at a VA healthcare facility (the VA is by far the largest integrated healthcare system in the US, serves about 11 million veterans, 150 hospitals....) we do more blood/lab tests than you can shake a stick at. Most all diabetics (virtually all Type 2, you can't serve in the military with Type 1 of course) get ACE inhibitors and statins along with their diabetes meds (many times Lantus and Novolog, or metformin/glyburide). But as for measuring the GFR the vast majority of them have a normal creatinine, or only slightly elevated. So estimating an eGFR is probably not helpful. If it's off, the main thing you're gonna do is try and improve glucose control/A1C. Not much else. We got guys running A1Cs of 10-12 sometimes. But many are under 8 which is pretty decent.
 
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