The Kidney Book provides a multidisciplinary practical guide to diagnosing and managing common kidney conditions, procedures, and situations encountered by physicians, residents, and other healthcare professionals involved in caring for patients with kidney diseases. The chapters provide point-by-point, concise, and evidence-based information with tables, algorithms, and figures to summarise essential clinical practices and therapeutic procedures in the daily care of patients with kidney diseases and transplants. Therefore, readers will find this book easy to read and be able to equip themselves with core and practically valuable knowledge quickly. This book is written by nephrologists and allied health professionals from Singapore’s oldest and largest academic renal unit at the Singapore General Hospital, which has been ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the world by Newsweek.
This book provides practical guidelines and information and differentiates itself from other nephrology-themed books by its origin in Asia. It would especially appeal to healthcare providers in the Asian region. There are very few textbooks in nephrology from Asia. In addition, it covers the most common problems and areas encountered by healthcare providers caring for patients with kidney diseases in a point-by-point form that is easily digestible and highly relevant to bedside clinical practice. The book even includes a special care section dealing with particular situations and procedures such as kidney supportive care, pregnancy, and therapeutic plasma exchange. This book will appeal to a broad audience; even medical/nursing or allied health students will find it useful in their studies.
Readership: This book will appeal to medical/nursing or allied health students, residents, and internal and renal medicine physicians. It will certainly be useful to include it in reading lists for students and residents, especially those preparing for internal and renal medicine specialist certification.
