Healthcare providers categorize AKI causes as prerenal, renal, or postrenal, depending on the underlying problem. Prerenal refers to circumstances that reduce blood flow to the kidneys ...

More than 30 different definitions of 'acute kidney injury' (AKI) appear in the published literature. The use of different definitions in different studies makes it virtually impossible to analyze ...

we feel that a prospective randomized study comparing these two solutions should be conducted in such patients to examine any differences in the occurrence of AKI and mortality. Resuscitation ...