Acute kidney injury
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is defined by a rapid increase in serum creatinine, decrease in urine output, or both. AKI occurs in approximately 10-15% of patients admitted to hospi...
Publications
16 shownIntensity of Renal Support in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury
Intensive renal support in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury did not decrease mortality, improve recovery of kidney function, or reduce the rate of nonrenal organ...
Acute Renal Failure in Critically Ill Patients<SUBTITLE>A Multinational, Multicenter Study</SUBTITLE>
In this multinational study, the period prevalence of ARF requiring RRT in the ICU was between 5% and 6% and was associated with a high hospital mortality rate.
Risk factors for acute renal failure: inherent and modifiable risks
There are identified risk factors of acute renal failure. Because acute renal failure is associated with a worsening outcome, particularly if occurring in critical illness and i...
Consensus development in acute renal failure: the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative
Broad consensus in the diagnosis and management of acute renal failure and in the use of blood purification in nonrenal critical illness is achievable. Standardization of defini...
Primary prevention of acute renal failure in the critically ill
The best evidence suggests that nonpharmacologic strategies are more effective than drugs in reducing the risk of acute renal failure. Evidence also exists that strategies that ...
Derivation, Validation, and Potential Treatment Implications of Novel Clinical Phenotypes for Sepsis
In this retrospective analysis of data sets from patients with sepsis, 4 clinical phenotypes were identified that correlated with host-response patterns and clinical outcomes, a...
Acute renal failure – definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group
Abstract Introduction There is no consensus definition of acute renal failure (ARF) in critically ill patients. More than 30 different definitions have been used in the literatu...
A Randomized Trial of Protocol-Based Care for Early Septic Shock
In a multicenter trial conducted in the tertiary care setting, protocol-based resuscitation of patients in whom septic shock was diagnosed in the emergency department did not im...
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Researcher Info
- h-index
- 16
- Publications
- 16
- Citations
- 31,065
- Institution
- University of Pittsburgh
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- ORCID
- 0000-0003-1995-2653
Impact Metrics
h-index
16
h-index: Number of publications with at least h citations each.