Education Resources - Index

• Renal Disease Patient Care Guidelines
• Kidney Transplantation
• Renal Pathology
• Neprhology Journals
• Nephrology on the Web
• Renal Calculators
• Renal Drug Dosing
• Faculty Presentations
• Other Educational Links

Patient Care Guidelines - Pre-ESRD and Dialysis

• Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Guidelines (NIH NHLBI Guidelines)
• Diabetes Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Hemodialysis Dose and Adequacy (NIH web site)
• Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative Home Page
• K/DOQI - Chronic Kidney Disease
• K/DOQI - Peritoneal Dialysis
• K/DOQI - Hemodialysis
• K/DOQI - Vascular Access
• K/DOQI Clinical Action Plan (Patient care based on DOQI pre-ESRD plan)
• K/DOQI Clinical Action (Palm Pilot version)

Patient Care Guidelines - Transplantation

• Recomenendations for Outpatient Surveillance of Renal Transplant Patients

   Care of the Well Transplant Patient (Edited by Dr. Zand)

•  Immunosuppression Medications
•  Post-Transplant Diabetes
•  Post Transplant Hypertension
•  Post-Transplant Hyperlipidemia
•  Post-Transplant Infection
•  Post-Transplant Anemia/Erythrocytosis
•  Post-Transplant Bone Disease
•  Post-Transplant Psychiatric Issues
•  Post-Transplant Male Sexual Dysfunction  

Renal Pathology

• UPIC Renal Transplant Pathology Site (Includes Banff Biopsy Classifcation)
• AJKD Atlas of Renal Pathology

Nephrology Journals

• Miner Digigal Library at UR
• American Journal of Kidney Diseases
• American Journal of Transplantation
• Clinical Transplantation
• Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
• Kidney International
• Transplantation

Nephrology Web Sites

• American Society of Nephrology
• Hypertension, Dialysis and the Kidney Network (HDCN)
• National Kidney Foundation
• Renal Physicians Association
• UNOS

Renal Calculators

• MDRD Glomerular Filtration Calculator (with PDA version)
• HDCN Renal Calculators (Has dialysis related calculators)
• Medcalc (A free medical calculator for Palm OS)

Renal Drug Dosing

• The Drug Monitor (has transplant drugs as well)
• ePocrates
• GlobalRPh (2 sets of dosing guidelines for renal failure)
• Nephrology Pharmacy Associates (drug dosing in PD and HD patients)

Faculty Presentations

• Slides from URMC Teaching Presentations by our Faculty

Other Useful Links

• Atlas of Diseases of the Kidney (Great reference for all things Nephro!)
• Nephron.com (useful links and renal news)
• Medicare Dialysis Facility Finder (Find your patient a dialysis facility!)
• Edward Tufte (a masterful site on good graphical presentation)