What is your approach to weaning dialysis in a patient with AKI on CKD and CHF who now has resolved AKI but a history of recurrent episodes of decompensated heart failure?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
My preference would be to keep them on dialysis. If the serum creatinine is really getting toward the normal range and urine output is good, I would just stop dialysis for a week and give them diuretics to see if they can do without dialysis. However in patients with creatinine levels in the higher ...