Reducing Mortality in Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 1 Acute Kidney Injury: The Plague of the New Millennium

Chapter 2 Acute Kidney Injury: Definitions, Incidence, Diagnosis, and Outcome

Chapter 3 Reducing Mortality in Acute Kidney Injury: The Democracy-Based Approach to Consensus

Chapter 4 Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Versus Intermittent Haemodialysis: Impact on Clinical Outcomes

Chapter 5 May an “Early” Renal Replacement Therapy Improve Survival?

Chapter 6 Increased Intensity of Renal Replacement Therapy to Reduce Mortality in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 7 Citrate Anticoagulation to Reduce Mortality in Patients Needing Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Chapter 8 Peri-angiography Hemofiltration to Reduce Mortality

Chapter 9 Continuous Venovenous Hemofiltration to Reduce Mortality in Severely Burned Patients

Chapter 10 Perioperative Hemodynamic Optimization to Reduce Acute Kidney Injury and Mortality in Surgical Patients

Chapter 11 Furosemide by Continuous Infusion to Reduce Mortality in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 12 N-acetylcysteine to Reduce Mortality in Cardiac Surgery

Chapter 13 Fenoldopam and Acute Kidney Injury: Is It Time to Turn the Page?

Chapter 14 Vasopressin to Reduce Mortality in Patients with Septic Shock and Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 15 Terlipressin Reduces Mortality in Hepatorenal Syndrome

Chapter 16 Albumin to Reduce Mortality in Cirrhotic Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 17 Extracorporeal Removal of Serum-Free Light Chains in Patients with Multiple Myeloma-Associated Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 18 Can Intravenous Human Immunoglobulins Reduce Mortality in Patients with (Septic) Acute Kidney Injury?

Chapter 19 Fluid Overload May Increase Mortality in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 20 Hydroxyethyl Starch, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality

Chapter 21 Loop Diuretics and Mortality in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

Chapter 22 Reducing Mortality in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Update