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Acute Kidney Injury Part III: Pathophysiology
Summary
Similar to other organ failures encountered in ICU such as acute respiratory failure or acute heart failure, acute kidney injury (AKI) is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome with multiple causative factors, a wide variety of clinical severity and diverse outcomes. Standardization of definitions and diagnostic criteria into stages based on serum creatinine level and urine output (see ACE course on AKI diagnosis) has been crucial in advancing the field of AKI and the staging specified by these definitions has been validated in terms of their associations with the short- and long-term risk of death and end-stage renal disease.
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Enrolled trainees 948
Open 11.11.2022
Available for ESICM members
Student effort 3
Last Updated April 11, 2024
Intended Learning Outcomes
After studying this module on Acute Kidney Injury Part III: Pathophysiology you should be able to:
- Describe the typical etiology of acute kidney injury in the ICU
- Understand different disease trajectories of acute kidney injury in different patient groups (sepsis, post-surgical, nephrotoxin exposure)
Relevant competencies in CoBaTrICE
- 3.2 Identifies the implications of chronic and co-morbid disease in the acutely ill patient
- 3.5 Recognition of patients with or at risk for acute kidney injury
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