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SCCM Pod-83 Preventing Acute Renal Failure

John Kellum, MD, FCCM, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses his article from the August 2007 issue of Critical Connections, "Preventing Acute Renal Failure."


SCCM Pod-129 CCM: The Use of RIFLE in Patients with AKI

John A. Kellum, MD, FCCM, discusses how one uses RIFLE to take care of patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). He also discusses his review article, published in the April 2008 Supplement issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “Acute Kidney Injury.”


SCCM Pod-275 44th Critical Care Congress: Is Repair After AKI Linked to Long-Term Outcomes?

Todd Fraser, MD, speaks with John Kellum, MD, MCCM, Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In this interview, Dr. Kellum discusses the concept of renal repair after acute kidney injury and its link to significant long-term outcomes in critically ill patients.


SCCM Pod-301 Guiding AKI Prevention Using Biomarkers

Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Azra Bihorac, MD, MS, FCCM, about the article, “Guiding AKI Prevention Using Biomarkers,” published in Critical Connections.


SCCM Pod-316 The SPLIT Randomized Clinical Trial

Todd Fraser, MD, speaks with Paul Young, FCICM, about the article, “Effect of a Buffered Crystalloid Solution vs Saline on Acute Kidney Injury Among Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: The SPLIT Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.


SCCM Pod-365 Medications and RRT: We Know How to Dose, Right?

Dr. Fraser, MD, speaks with Bruce A. Mueller, PharmD, FCCP, FASN, about his talk presented at the 47th Critical Care Congress in San Antonio, Texas, entitled "Artificial Kidney Meets Mechanical Lung: Comanaging the Patient with Renal and Respiratory Failure."


SCCM Pod-397 Renal Recovery After Critical Illness

Ludwig H. Lin, MD, and John A. Kellum, MD, MCCM, review factors associated with renal recovery, therapies and techniques used to enhance recovery, and long-term consequences of nonrecovery in critical illness.


SCCM Pod-400 Are AKI Biomarkers Ready for Clinical Use?

Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FCCM, and Azra Bihorac, MD, MS, FCCM, discuss best practices and complexities of implementing biomarkers for kidney stress and acute kidney injury (AKI) and what the future holds for AKI biomarker literature.


SCCM Pod-405 Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers and the Challenges of Clinical Use

Ludwig H. Lin, MD, and Michael G.S. Shashaty, MD, MS, discuss acute kidney injury (AKI) biomarkers and whether they are ready for clinical use.


Acute Kidney Injury in Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Pandemic: Experience From PICUs Across United Kingdom

From Critical Care Medicine. The authors evaluated the prevalence, evolution, and clinical factors associated with acute kidney injury in children admitted to PICUs with pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2.


Concise Critical Appraisal: PERSEVERE Biomarkers in Predicting AKI in Pediatric Septic Shock

Can the biomarkers identified in the Pediatric Sepsis Biomarker Risk Model (PERSEVERE II) be used to predict acute kidney injury and renal recovery in pediatric septic shock? This Concise Critical Appraisal explores a study in which Stanski et al (Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;201:848-855) sought to answer this question.


Concise Critical Appraisal: Effect of Sodium Bicarbonate Infusion on Patient Outcomes

Jaber et al (Lancet. 2018;392:31-40) set out to evaluate the effect of sodium bicarbonate infusion on critically ill patient outcomes.