Please help support Ninja Nerd to continue creating free medical videos. All donations we receive are put directly into content creation so we are able to continue providing these videos for free. Thanks!
Ninja Nerds!
In this lecture Professor Kristin Beach, MSN, BSN, RN will be discussing Glomerular Filtration Rate. During this lecture we will be discussing how the kidneys filter blood and how we measure these values utilizing the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). We will also be discussing how kidney diseases can affect the GFR and cause injury. We hope you enjoy this lecture!
Table of Contents:
0:00 Lab
0:07 Glomerular Filtration Rate Introduction
0:39 Anatomy & Physiology of the Renal Corpuscle
4:53 Pathophysiology of the Filtration Membrane
7:45 Glomerular Filtration Rate
17:05 Signs & Symptoms
20:35 Diagnostics
23:34 Nursing Interventions
28:38 Comment, Like, SUBSCRIBE!