Preventing acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-76

  Coleman, Matthew D ^a   Shaefi, Shahzad ^a   Sladen, Robert N ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Cardiac surgery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BICARBONATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FENOLDOPAM; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ALKALINIZATION; ANEMIA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HEART SURGERY; HEMOFILTRATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY INJURY; MEDICAL CARE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL PROTECTION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; STRATIFICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FENOLDOPAM; GLUCOSE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; KIDNEY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 79952762241     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283422ebc     Document Type: Review

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