Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Foreword xi
David Colin-Thomé

Foreword xii
Rosemary Macri

Introduction: Managing Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Non-Specialist Areas: A Chronic Illness Approach xiii
Rachel Lewis

1 Managing Chronic Conditions: The Policy Context 1
Beverley Matthews

2 What Non-Specialists Need to Know about Chronic Kidney Disease 12
Graham Woodrow, Jeanette Denning and David Lewis

3 A Practical Approach to Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care 31
Hugh Rayner, Rajib Pal and Indranil Dasgupta

4 General Considerations Related to Treatment Modalities 52
Aisha I. Geeson, Charles R. V. Tomson and Lesley Lappin

5 Psychosocial Aspects of Living with Chronic Kidney Disease 76
Emma Coyne

6 Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalised Patients 101
Keith Harkins, Rachel Lewis and Rachel Hilton

7 Management of Patients with or at Risk of Kidney Disease on the Surgical Ward 122
Colin H. Jones and Maggie Higginbotham

8 Medication Management and Chronic Kidney Disease 143
Aileen Dunleavy

9 Optimising Nutrition in People with Chronic Kidney Disease 169
Helena Jackson and Sally Noble

10 Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease 194
Sheila Johnston, Helen Noble and Rachel Lewis

Index 213

About the Author

Rachel Lewis is Doctoral Researcher with the Collaboration of Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care at Manchester University.
Dr Helen Noble is Lecturer in the Adult Nursing Department, at City University, London, UK. She has extensive research expertise in nephrology nursing, particularly related to those who opt not to embark on dialysis.

Reviews

It seems clear that the writers aim to appeal tonon-specialists has been successful. Any healthcareprofessional, working in hospital or non-hospital settings, workingwith the frail elderly (at particular risk of CKD) and staffworking in acute surgical areas will find a lot of easy tounderstand information here. Any professional, previouslyintimidated by renal disease management, will find that this bookdemystifies this import area of practice. ( NursingTimes , 5 June 2014) Overall, this is a thoughtful review of generalconsiderations for treatment options, as well as a needed overviewof the psychosocial aspects of living with kidneydisease. ( Doody s , 4 October 2013)