Research progress on start timing of renal replacement therapy

VernacularTitle:肾脏替代治疗开始时机选择的研究进展
Author: Yangyang WANG ; Jing CAI ; Ping CHANG
Keywords: Acute kidney injury; Renal replacement therapy
From: Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine in Intensive and Critical Care 2017;24(4):442-444
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is caused by a variety of causes resulting in rapid decline in renal function and manifestingclinical syndrome, whether mild or severe kidney damage it caused, the permanent loss of renal function will exist; the mortality of patients with septic AKI is as high as over 70%. Renal replacement therapy (RRT) can significantly improve the clinical prognosis of patients with AKI and reduce its mortality. However, the selections of RRT treatment mode, dose and timing of start or stop exist a lot of controversies. In this report, as using RRT to treat critically ill patients with AKI is still a hot topic in academic research, the related literatures of RRT guidelines, score evaluation, renal function indexes and biological marker aspects were reviewed and summarized.