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Thursday 7 August 2014

A comparison of different diagnostic criteria of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients

A comparison of different diagnostic criteria of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients. Critical Care 2014, 18: R144.

Luo, X., et al.

http://ccforum.com/content/18/4/R144

Recently, the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) proposed a new definition and classification of acute kidney injury (AKI) on the basis of the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of kidney function, and End-stage renal failure) and AKIN (Acute Kidney Injury Network) criteria, but comparisons of the three criteria in critically ill patients are rare.

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