Prevention of acute kidney injury and protection of renal function in the intensive care unit: update 2017: Expert opinion of the Working Group on Prevention, AKI section, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 730-749

  Joannidis, M ^a   Druml, W ^b   Forni, L G ^c   Groeneveld, A B J ⁱ   Honore, P M ^d   Hoste, E ^e   Ostermann, M ^f   Schetz, M ^h  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR SIGNALING   (Belgium)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Prevention; Recommendations; Systematic review; Vasopressors; Volume expansion

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; LEVOSIMENDAN; NORADRENALIN; STARCH; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; CARE BUNDLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CRYSTALLOID; DIET THERAPY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART SURGERY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MAJOR SURGERY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RENAL PROTECTION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; AGED; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL CARE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 85020105747     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-017-4832-y     Document Type: Article

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