Erschienen in:
01.01.2016 | What's New in Intensive Care
Does this patient have acute kidney injury? An AKI checklist
verfasst von:
John A. Kellum, Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2016
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Excerpt
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). …