Decreased Urine Output and Acute Kidney Injury in the Postanesthesia Care Unit

Acute pain management in the postanesthesia care unit.

Pain management in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) is continually evolving, with several new nonopioids expanding the list of available agents. Pain in the PACU is not an inevitable outcome of surgery. With careful planning, multimodal analgesic techniques instituted preoperatively will reduce pain in the PACU. Accurate assessment of the characteristics of pain will direct rational drug cho...

Drug-associated acute kidney injury in the intensive care unit

Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in the Intensive Care Unit

The incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in the intensive care unit (ICU) has increased during the past decade due to increased acuity as well as increased recognition. Early epidemiology studies were confounded by erratic definitions of AKI until recent consensus guidelines (RIFLE and AKIN) standardized its definition. This paper discusses the incidence of AKI in the ICU with focuses on spec...

Evaluation of Acute Kidney Injury in Intensive Care Unit

Acute kidney injury (AKI), impairment of kidney function requires special attention in intensive care unit’s (ICU), because if multiorgan failure affect the kidney, it carries a greater risk for worse outcome and furthermore survivors have higher risk then normal population for chronic renal failure. It was reported that they also have higher mortality and morbidity rates compared to normal pop...

Acute kidney injury in intensive care unit patients: a comparison between the RIFLE and the Acute Kidney Injury Network classifications

INTRODUCTION Whether discernible advantages in terms of sensitivity and specificity exist with Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) criteria versus Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of Kidney Function, End-stage Kidney Disease (RIFLE) criteria is currently unknown. We evaluated the incidence of acute kidney injury and compared the ability of the maximum RIFLE and of the maximum AKIN within intensive ca...