Fleet Phospho-soda and Renal Failure
The risk of renal failure from the use of Fleet Phospho-soda has only received attention in recent years. Here is what some doctors are saying about the problem.
“[T]he use of OSPS [i.e., oral sodium phosphate solutions] preparations is an underdiagnosed cause of AKI [i.e., acute kidney injury] and may be responsible for CKD [chronic kidney disease] of unknown etiology.”
“[O]ur health care system has abandoned the routine use of OSPS as a bowel cleansing agent for elective colonoscopies.”
- Anand Khurana, MD, Luciana McLean, MD, Sheree Atkinson, BS, CCRP, Charles J. Foulks, MD.,
“The Effect of Oral Sodium Phosphate Drug Products on Renal Function in Adults Undergoing Bowel Endoscopy,” Arch. Inten. Med., Vol, 168 (No. 6), Mar. 24, 2008
“I first became aware of acute renal failure associated with colonoscopy preparation at a routine divisional complications conference in 2007. Several gastroenterologists noted that the renal faculty had recently buttonholed them in the hallways, asking that the gastroenterology department no longer recommend ‘killer of kidneys’ sodium phosphate preparations.”
“In summary, my philosophical perspective is that sodium phosphate should not be used for bowel cleansing, given the potential catastrophic kidney complications.”
- Helen M. Shields, MD, FACP, AGAF
Chair, Colorectal Cancer Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Risk Management Foundation
Sheilds, “Killer of Kidneys?” Am. Gastroenterological Assoc. Perspectives, April/May 2008
“Phosphate solutions will no longer be used to prepare patients for colonoscopy.”
- Theodore I. Steinman, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Steinman, et al., “Case 27-2008: A 64-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain, Nausea, and an Elevated Level of Serum Creatinine,” NEJM, 359:9 (Aug. 28, 2008)
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