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This chapter provides a detailed application of the AKI definition and staging for clinical diagnosis and management. The definitions and classification system discussed in Chapter 2.1 can be used easily in many patients and requires little clinical interpretation. However, in real time, clinicians do not always have a complete dataset to work with and individual patients present with unique histories. As discussed in the previous chapter, it is difficult to distinguish AKI from CKD in many cases. In addition, as many as two-thirds of all cases of AKI begin prior to hospitalization (community-acquired AKI). Therefore, clinicians may be faced with patients in whom kidney function is already decreased and, during the hospitalization, improves rather than worsens. Finally, many patients do not have a prior measurement of kidney function available for comparison. This chapter provides detailed examples of the application of these definitions to the clinical setting.
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