Program
2010 Spring Clinical Meetings Objectives
The National Kidney Foundation 2010 Spring Clinical Meeting promises to be an exciting program that will update the busy renal health care provider about new developments related to all aspects of nephrology practice. Participants will learn about new and evolving concepts related to kidney disease through workshops, debates, interactive courses and traditional educational sessions.
The meeting's learning objectives are to increase the participants’ understanding, knowledge, and competency in the following areas:
- Glomerulonephritis diagnostic and treatment approaches
- Acute kidney injury, especially in the ICU setting
- Causes and management of secondary hypertension
- Kidney transplantation
- Newer therapies for diabetes and targets for control
- Malnutrition and strategies to ameliorate it
- Home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
- Electrolyte disturbances
- Drug dosing in CKD and ESRD
- Racial and ethnic disparities in CKD
- Nephrolithiasis
- Anemia management
- Vascular access and interventional nephrology
- CKD and cardiovascular disease
- Health-related quality of life in ESRD
- Kidney disease in pregnancy
- Mineral metabolism – new populations and novel markers
- Geriatric nephrology
- Estimating equations for kidney function