eConsults: How To Manage Chronic Kidney Disease
WebinarNephrology eConsults: How to Manage Chronic Kidney Disease
Ankit Patel, MD, PhD, Nephrology Specialist at AristaMD, discusses when and how to manage chronic kidney disease for your patients in the primary care setting with the support of an eConsult.
- Exposures and susceptibilities leading to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Risks of prerenal, intrarenal and postrenal AKI
- Recommended diagnostics for AKI
- CKD Management including:
- Diabetic kidney disease
- Appropriate use of Sodium-Glucose Transport Protein 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors
- Treatment for hyperphosphatemia, vitamin D deficiency, hypertension and anemia in patients with CKD
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Ankit Patel, MD, PhD
Nephrologist & Nephrology eConsult Specialist
Ankit B. Patel, MD, PhD is a board-certified nephrologist who completed his MD at Weill Cornell Medical College and PhD at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He completed his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and his Nephrology fellowship at the combined Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospital Fellowship.
Dr. Patel’s clinical interests remain broad in adult nephrology and include acid-base and electrolyte disorders, hypertension management, diabetic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, and chronic kidney disease management.
Dr. Patel is originally from Rockland County, New York and remains a dedicated New York Yankees fan while living in Boston with his wife and three kids.
Long Wait Times for Healthcare Decrease Specialist Access
In order to understand the different reasons that patients struggle to access care, it is essential to look at what contributes to the issue. There are many reasons that patients do not access specialty care. Social determinants of health (SDOH) like the travel distance required to access specialty care in rural areas, cost, disability, and many more. However, the issue that impacts patients nationwide is the long wait times for healthcare that limit appointments with specialists.
Patients are frequently told that specialists aren’t able to see them for several weeks or even months from when the patient receives a referral and attempts to make an appointment. This creates a backlog of patients who often don’t get seen by a specialist because the patient seeks care in another location, like the ED, or decide that the appointment isn’t necessary. So much time between the date the appointment is scheduled and the date of the appointment leads to forgotten and missed appointments and scheduling conflicts.
Average Wait Time by Specialty
- Nephrology: 23.5 days
- Urology: 19.2 days
- Pulmonology: 25.2 days
- Rheumatology: 44.8 days