Reducing Mortality in Acute Kidney Injury

Preface.- Part I. Introduction.- Acute Kidney Injury: the plague of the new millennium.- Acute Kidney Injury: Definitions, Incidence, Diagnosis, and Outcome.- Reducing mortality in acute kidney injury: the democracy-based approach to consensus.- Part II. Interventions that May Reduce Mortality.- Continuous renal replacement therapy vs. intermittent hemodialysis: impact on clinical outcomes.- May an "early" renal replacement therapy improve survival?.- Increased intensity of renal replacement therapy to reduce mortality in patients with acute kidney injury.- Citrate anticoagulation to reduce mortality in patients needing continuous renal replacement therapy.- Peri-angiography hemofiltration to reduce mortality.- Continuous venovenous hemofiltration to reduce mortality in severely burned patients.- Perioperative hemodynamic optimization to reduce acute kidney injury and mortality in surgical patients.- Furosemide by continuous infusion to reduce mortality in patients with acute kidney injury.- N-acetylcysteine to Reduce Mortality in Cardiac Surgery.- Fenoldopam and Acute Kidney Injury. Is it time to turn the page?.-Vasopressin to reduce mortality in patients with septic shock and acute kidney injury.- Terlipressin reduces mortality in hepatorenal syndrome.- Albumin to reduce mortality in cirrhotic patients with acute kidney injury.- Extracorporeal Removal of Serum Free Light Chains in Patients with Multiple-Myeloma Associated Acute Kidney Injury.- Can intravenous human immunoglobulins reduce mortality in patients with (septic) acute kidney injury?.- Part III. Interventions that May Increase Mortality.- Fluid overload may increase mortality in patients with Acute Kidney Injury.- Hydroxyethyl starch, acute kidney injury, and mortality.- Loop diuretics and mortality in patients with acute kidney injury.- Part IV. Update.- Reducing Mortality in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Update.

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• Medicina de acidentes e urgências
• Medicina Renal e nefrologia
• Cuidados médicos intensivos
• Anestesia

Cardiac surgery;Colloids;Critical care;Fenoldopam;Loop diuretics;N-acetylcysteine;Perioperative hemodynamic optimization;Renal replacement therapy;Terlipressin;Vasopressin