#425 - 🏖️ [COOL TOPICS] - Are We Missing Neonatal AKI Right in Front of Us? (ft. Dr. Caitlin Carter)

Send us Fan MailDr. Caitlin Carter, Clinical Director of Nephrology at Rady Children’s Hospital and associate clinical professor at UC San Diego, joins the podcast to challenge how neonatologists recognize and follow up on acute kidney injury. She explains why creatinine alone is insufficient, how biomarkers like NGAL can detect tubular injury before function declines, and why AKI too often disappears from the discharge summary. She also outlines published consensus guidelines on post NICU nephrology follow-up, with clear thresholds based on gestational age and AKI severity.Support the showAs always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: [email protected]. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.Enjoy!