Introduction Acute kidney injury (AKI) is extremely common in critically ill patients. Prevention and supportive therapy with renal replacement therapy (RRT) are the only management options. This editorial comments on… Click to show full abstract
Introduction Acute kidney injury (AKI) is extremely common in critically ill patients. Prevention and supportive therapy with renal replacement therapy (RRT) are the only management options. This editorial comments on papers published in Intensive Care Medicine in 2015 and 2016 focusing on epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and extracorporeal treatment of AKI. Their main findings are summarized in Fig. 1.
               
Click one of the above tabs to view related content.