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This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. John Kellum and Dana Fuhrman, focuses on Acute Kidney Injury. This is one of four issues each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. John Kellum._ Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: Acute Kidney Injury and Disease, AKI in Cardiac Surgery, AKI in Sepsis, Hepatorenal Disease, Cardiorenal Syndrome, Onconephrology, Renal Functional Reserve and more._
List of contents
Defining Acute Kidney Injury
Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiac Surgery
Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
Nephrotoxin Stewardship
Hepatorenal Syndrome
Cardiorenal Syndrome
Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury: Understanding of the Impact on the Smallest Patients
Onconephrology
Biomarkers in Acute Kidney Injury
The Role of Renal Functional Reserve in Predicting Acute Kidney Injury
Starting Kidney Replacement Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury
Kidney Replacement Therapy for Fluid Management
Acute Kidney Disease to Chronic Kidney Disease
About the author
Dr. Kellum is a Distinguished Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, Bioengineering and Clinical and Translational Science and holds an Endowed Chair in Critical Care Research from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently on leave and serving as the Chief Medical Officer for Spectral Medical, a late-stage medical device company developing diagnostics and therapeutics for sepsis. Dr. Kellum received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in 1984. His postgraduate training includes an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester, NY, and a Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests span various aspects of Critical Care Medicine but center in critical care nephrology, sepsis, and multi-organ failure. He has authored more than 750 publications, has won several teaching awards teaching, has given more than 500 seminars and invited lectures worldwide.
