Practical Laboratory Medicine is pleased to present: The PLABM AKI Special Issue Podcast. In this special issue podcast, Dr. Barnali Das, Reviews Editor of Practical Laboratory Medicine talks with Dr. Joe-El Khoury, Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory and fellowship program at Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Health. He recently served as Guest Editor for Practical Laboratory Medicine’s special issue on Acute Kidney Injury.

The aim of this Practical Laboratory Medicine special issue podcast is to summarize the recent advances in laboratory detection of acute kidney injury, which is fully within the scope of the journal. There is further discussion on significant advances with the transition of novel AKI biomarkers into the clinical space, creation of automated alerts and machine learning tools for AKI detection, and a new creatinine-based definition proposed by leading laboratory organizations like the AACC Academy.