Be wary when a non-clinician talks about acute kidney injury
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is hard.
Things that seem like they should work often don’t. Just ask Perry Wilson.
And even the most predictable cases of AKI are resistant to intervention. Look at bypass surgery. We know days in advance the time and place the AKI will occur and despite that foreknowledge, like Cassandra, we are powerless to prevent the AKI. Same with contrast administration (or not). Same with AAA …
