Classification of acute kidney injury: Are we there yet?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 572-574

  Joannidis, Michael ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACIDOSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; KIDNEY INJURY; OLIGURIA; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RIFLE CLASSIFICATION; UREMIA; URINE VOLUME;

HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33947535731     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0536-z     Document Type: Editorial

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