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01-12-2015 | Letter
Association of perioperative intravenous fluid strategy with acute kidney injury following off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
Authors:
Fu-Shan Xue, Gao-Pu Liu, Rui-Ping Li
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
In the nonrandomized observational study by Kim et al. [
1] evaluating association of perioperative intravenous fluid strategy with acute kidney injury (AKI) following off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery, the cumulative amount of intravenous fluids received during surgery and in the immediate postoperative period was significantly different between control and renal protective fluid management groups. We are very interested in knowing whether the serum creatinine (sCr) levels used for diagnosis of postoperative AKI in this study had been corrected based on perioperative fluid balance. …