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Identifying critically ill patients with acute kidney injury for whom renal replacement therapy is inappropriate: an exercise in futility?
Clinicians treating critically ill patients must consider the possibility that painful and expensive aggressive treatments might confer negligible benefit. Such treatments are often described as futile or inappropriate. We discuss the problem of deciding whether to initiate renal replacement therapy...
Autores principales: | Gabbay, Ezra, Meyer, Klemens B. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4421337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25949304 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfn196 |
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