Reducing Mortality in Acute Kidney Injury

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Landoni, Giovanni (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pisano, Antonio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Zangrillo, Alberto (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bellomo, Rinaldo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Nephrology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

This book describes the techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by at least one paper published in a peer-reviewed journal to significantly influence survival in patients with or at risk for acute kidney injury. Each chapter focuses on a specific intervention. The scope is acco...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Part I. Introduction
• Acute Kidney Injury: the plague of the new millennium
• Acute Kidney Injury: Definitions, Incidence, Diagnosis, and Outcome
• Reducing mortality in acute kidney injury: the democracy-based approach to consensus
• Part II. Interventions that May Reduce Mortality
• Continuous renal replacement therapy vs. intermittent hemodialysis: impact on clinical outcomes
• May an “early” renal replacement therapy improve survival?
• Increased intensity of renal replacement therapy to reduce mortality in patients with acute kidney injury
• Citrate anticoagulation to reduce mortality in patients needing continuous renal replacement therapy
• Peri-angiography hemofiltration to reduce mortality
• Continuous venovenous hemofiltration to reduce mortality in severely burned patients
• Perioperative hemodynamic optimization to reduce acute kidney injury and mortality in surgical patients
• Furosemide by continuous infusion to reduce mortality in patients with acute kidney injury
• N-acetylcysteine to Reduce Mortality in Cardiac Surgery
• Fenoldopam and Acute Kidney Injury. Is it time to turn the page?.-Vasopressin to reduce mortality in patients with septic shock and acute kidney injury
• Terlipressin reduces mortality in hepatorenal syndrome
• Albumin to reduce mortality in cirrhotic patients with acute kidney injury
• Extracorporeal Removal of Serum Free Light Chains in Patients with Multiple-Myeloma Associated Acute Kidney Injury
• Can intravenous human immunoglobulins reduce mortality in patients with (septic) acute kidney injury?
• Part III. Interventions that May Increase Mortality
• Fluid overload may increase mortality in patients with Acute Kidney Injury
• Hydroxyethyl starch, acute kidney injury, and mortality
• Loop diuretics and mortality in patients with acute kidney injury
• Part IV. Update
• Reducing Mortality in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Update.