Fractional excretion of potassium in the course of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: Potential monitoring tool?;Fração de excreção de potássio na evolução da lesão renal aguda em pacientes graves: um potencial marcador a ser monitorizado?

Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-147

  Maciel, Alexandre Toledo ^a,b   Park, Marcelo ^a   Macedo, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Intensimed Research Group Intensive Care Unit Hospital São Camilo ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Critically illness; Monitoring; Potassium urine; Sodium urine; Urine chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928716344     PISSN: 0103507X     EISSN: 19824335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5935/0103-507X.20140021     Document Type: Article

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