Acute Kidney Failure Therapy
Research data from Mount Sinai School of Medicine update understanding of acute kidney failure therapy
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, February 16th, 2007
Researchers detail in "Propofol infusion syndrome: a case of increasing morbidity with traumatic brain injury," new data in acute kidney failure. According to recent research from the United States, "A previously healthy 16-year-old boy with a closed, severe traumatic brain injury was admitted to a surgical and trauma intensive care unit. He was given a continuous infusion of propofol for sedation and to control intracranial pressure."
"About 3 days after the propofol infusion was started, metabolic acidosis and rhabdomyolysis developed. Acute renal failure ensued as a result of the rhabdomyolysis. Tachycardia with wide QRS complexes developed without hyperkalemia. The...
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