Rare honour for city-based cardiac surgeon

City based cardiac surgeon Dr Lokeswara Rao Sajja was the only Indian invited for the 20th Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) International Consensus meet which was held at Brijuni Island, Croatia between June 16 to 19.

He was invited to provide evidence-based guidelines for the management of cardiovascular surgery-associated acute kidney injury (AKI). He was invited from India based on his expertise in the field of Cardiac Surgery in patients with compromised kidney function.

Nearly 1 million cardiac surgeries are carried out across the world every year. It was found that at least 4 per cent of 5 per cent of all these cases develop kidney problems post surgery. This finding emphasised the need to frame a set of standardised guidelines that can be used to effectively manage such cases in the best possible manner, he said.

Participants of the ADQI conference reviewed existing evidence and made recommendations for current practice and for further research. Eminent cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, intensivists and critical care specialists attended this particular conference.

The Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) was established in response to concerns about the quality of care delivered to patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) based on published data, which demonstrated that AKI is associated with an unacceptably high rate of mortality and that there is wide practice variation in diagnosis and management worldwide.

The 20th ADQI conference focused on ‘Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Associated AKI’ for establishing an evidence-based appraisal and set of consensus recommendations to standardise care and direct further research. Experts at the conference discussed how to manage acute kidney injury associated with cardiac surgery.