Reducing Mortality in Acute Kidney Injury

This book describes the techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by at least one paper published in a peer-reviewed journal to significantly influence survival in patients with or at risk for acute kidney injury. Each chapter focuses on a specific intervention. The scope is acco...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Landoni, Giovanni (Editor), Pisano, Antonio (Editor), Zangrillo, Alberto (Editor), Bellomo, Rinaldo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Critical care medicine.
Nephrology.
Emergency medicine.
Anesthesiology.
Intensive Care Medicine.
Emergency Medicine.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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