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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 6/2017

01-06-2017 | What's New in Intensive Care

The AKI glossary

Authors: Antoine Schneider, Marlies Ostermann

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2017

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Critical Care Nephrology has emerged as an important area of Intensive Care Medicine. This has coincided with the introduction of new terminology, changing definitions and new tests and technologies that may be confusing for those who are less familiar with the field of acute kidney injury (AKI). In this paper, we present a short glossary of terms that commonly appear in the literature. Our goal is not to provide a comprehensive review of AKI but rather a short guide for the beginner and the perplexed. …
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Metadata
Title
The AKI glossary
Authors
Antoine Schneider
Marlies Ostermann
Publication date
01-06-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4751-y

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