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Does this patient have acute kidney injury? An AKI checklist

Authors: John A. Kellum, Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 1/2016

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Imagine receiving a call from a colleague asking for some help evaluating a patient in the emergency department. The patient is 66 years old and apart from some osteoarthritis is in excellent health. She has not seen a physician for several years. She now has fever, cough, and a right lower lobe infiltrate. The doctor has started antibiotics and given some IV fluid but he is concerned about a serum creatinine of 1.3 mg/dl and oliguria (voided only 20 ml in the last 2 h). …
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Metadata
Title
Does this patient have acute kidney injury? An AKI checklist
Authors
John A. Kellum
Rinaldo Bellomo
Claudio Ronco
Publication date
01-01-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-4026-4

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