our study evaluated the differences between early and late hemodialysis (hd) initiation in the intensive care unit (icu) according to the rifle (risk, injury, failure, loss, and end-stage renal failure) and akin (acute kidney injury network) classifications. on the assumption that early initiation of hd in critical patients according to the rifle and akin criteria decreases mortality, we retros...

Our study evaluated the differences between early and late hemodialysis (HD) initiation in the intensive care unit (ICU) according to the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, and End-stage renal failure) and AKIN (Acute Kidney Injury Network) classifications. On the assumption that early initiation of HD in critical patients according to the RIFLE and AKIN criteria decreases mortality, we retros...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in the intensive care unit (ICU) and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This requires clinicians to be familiar with recent advances in definitions, diagnosis, prevention, and management of AKI in the ICU. The Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) represents the efforts of a workgroup seeking to develop consensus and evidence-based sta...

OBJECTIVE Acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF) is usually type 1 of the cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) and has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Early recognition of AKI is critical. This study was to determine if the new KDIGO criteria (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) for identification and short-term prognosis of early C...

INTRODUCTION The development of acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with poor outcome. The modified RIFLE (risk, injury, failure, loss of kidney function, and end-stage renal failure) classification for AKI, which classifies patients with renal replacement therapy needs according to RIFLE failure class, improves the predictive value of AKI in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Our aim was...

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) increases the risk of death after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Recently, a new AKI definition was proposed by the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization. The aim of the current study was to compare the incidence and the early and late mortality of AKI diagnosed by RIFLE and KDIGO criteria in the first 7 days of hospitalization du...

BACKGROUND The Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative Working Group recently developed the RIFLE criteria, a consensus definition for acute kidney injury (AKI). We sought to evaluate the RIFLE criteria on the day of ICU admission in a large heterogenous population of critically ill patients. METHODS Retrospective interrogation of prospectively collected data from the Australian New Zealand Intensi...

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a recognized complication of cardiac surgery; however, the variability in costs and outcomes reported are due, in part, to different criteria for diagnosing and classifying AKI. We determined costs, resource use and mortality rate of patients. We used the serum creatinine component of the RIFLE system to classify AKI. METHODS A retrospective cohort stud...