Defining acute kidney injury: Further steps in the right direction but can détente be maintained?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2764-2765

  Kanagasundaram, Nigel Suren ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; creatinine; critical care; diagnosis; epidemiology; incidence; outcome; severity staging; urine output

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; DIURETIC AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY NETWORK; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MORTALITY; OLIGURIA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UREMIA; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE VOLUME;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 81855161365     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31822d2329     Document Type: Editorial

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