Hello Doctor !!!My name is Rajesh i am from India.My mother in law is about 70year old she slip in gardan and got injury to his and as she got facture we take her in hospital where doc says the she need to be hospitalise for some days. so we admit her but after 4 days she got infection of nimonia and shift to ICU after 3-4 hr. Doc says that her kidney is not working so we get angry and shift her to some other hospital, now 7 days are gone again and every second the doctor say her for dilosis, but still her kidney is not working.doc says we need to wait for to start kidney working automatically still that day we need to do dilosis. please help me !!!Thanks !!!-Rajesh India
HelloThanks for query. Your mother-in-law sustained fracture of the leg and was hospitalized for treatment. Unfortunately she developed Pneumonia followed by acute renal failure whicChatDoctorpelled Chat Doctor. It is not uncommon in elderly patients to get complication of landing in to multi organ failure after major trauma. One can not go ahead and perform surgery till her kidney function resumes to normal.