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  • The AKIpredictor: An Online Calculator to Predict Acute Kidney Injury

    • 16/03/2017

    Acute kidney injury (AKI), a rapid decline in renal function, is highly prevalent in critically ill patients, and is associated with an increased risk of short- and long-term complications that extend beyond the acute phase (Pickkers et al. 2017). AKI is defined and classified by an increase in serum creatinine or a decline in urine output, both late and non-specific markers of the underlying...

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  • Sedation in Acute Brain Injury: Less is More?

    • 29/09/2015

    Over the past decades, landmark interventional studies in general intensive1!care unit (ICU) patients have taught us that efforts to reduce the use of sedatives, by daily interruption (Kress et al. 2000; Girard et al. 2008), by not using sedatives as standard practice (Strøm et al. 2010), or by tapering sedatives to an awake but comfortable state (Mehta et al. 2012), lead to improvements in outcomes....

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