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Acute Renal Failure and Sepsis: A Microbiologist’s View

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Acute Renal Failure in the Intensive Therapy Unit

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Abstract

Recently a review of acute renal failure in the intensive care unit made several important observations (Cameron 1986). First, and perhaps most important, that in spite of 30 years of advance in the treatment of renal failure, mortality rates for acute renal failure in critically ill patients seem to be fixed at around 50%–70%. However, it is clear that many of the patients who fail to survive have more than renal failure. In those cases with renal failure alone, following surgery a trauma mortality is only 10% or less. But as other organ systems begin to fail, mortality rates climb sharply. Two organ systems failing increases mortality to 50%; whereas three organ systems or more failing is associated with a mortality rate greater than 75%.

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Guy’s Hospital, St Thomas St, SE1 9RT, London, UK

    David Bihari MA, MRCP (Director of Intensive Care Services) (Director of Intensive Care Services)

  2. Department of Renal Medicine, Institute of Urology, UCMSM, St Philip’s Hospital, Sheffield St, WC2A 2EX, London, UK

    Guy Neild MD, FRCP (Senior Lecturer in Nephrology) (Senior Lecturer in Nephrology)

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Noone, P. (1990). Acute Renal Failure and Sepsis: A Microbiologist’s View. In: Bihari, D., Neild, G. (eds) Acute Renal Failure in the Intensive Therapy Unit. Current Concepts in Critical Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1750-6_3

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