Covid-19: new NICE guidance on acute kidney injury

NICE has published a new Covid-19 rapid guideline to help healthcare professionals who are not kidney specialists to prevent, detect and manage acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients in hospital with suspected or confirmed Covid-19. The guideline highlights that AKI may be common in patients with Covid-19 and can lead to worse outcomes for patients. Maintaining the optimal level of body fluids is critical to prevent and manage AKI, but this can be hard to achieve. There is also emerging evidence that suggests the coronavirus might directly harm the kidneys. So, it is important that patients are assessed for AKI on admission to