Things We Do for No Reason™: Avoiding intravenous iodinated contrast material in patients with acute kidney injury or chronic kidney disease

2025/04/21 by Caroline Coleman, Meredith Trubitt, Joel Michels Topf +1 · 2 voices
Medicine · #Acute Kidney Injury Research #Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation #Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances

paper · doi:10.1002/jhm.70063

Abstract

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Discussions

• Things We Do For No Reason: Avoiding IV iodinated contrast in AKI or CKD I think of those who give prolonged meropenem for "undifferentiated sepsis" but refuse to arrange contrast CT to look for the [bsky, 20 points, 2 comments]
• Are we unnecessarily withholding IV contrast from patients with kidney disease? - Risk of contrast-induced nephropathy may be overstated - Withholding contrast can delay diagnosis This may be a #TWDF [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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