Early intervention in acute renal failure

British Medical Journal

Volumn 333, Issue 7565, 2006, Pages 406-407

  Bennett Jones, David N ^a  

^a WEST CUMBERLAND HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; UREA;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEPHROTOXICITY; OLIGURIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

DIURETICS; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE;

EID: 33748264683     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38945.596215.80     Document Type: Editorial

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