Published in:
01-07-2015 | Editorial
Feeding the kidneys in AKI: no appetite for a change in practice
Authors:
Michael Joannidis, Zaccaria Ricci, Miet Schetz
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 7/2015
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Excerpt
The quest for the “silver bullet” to protect kidney function in critical illness has been largely unsuccessful over recent decades. Most of these “negative” clinical investigations concentrated on selective increases of renal blood flood (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using adenosine agonists, natriuretic peptides, prostaglandins, renal dose dopamine [
1], or just recently fenoldopam [
2]. …