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Acute renal failure

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Critically-ill

There is no clear benefit from using albumin d  

Why?

  • Albumin infusions for maintenance of colloid osmotic pressure do not clearly preserve renal function, or prevent death in critically ill patients. d
  • It does not clearly increase or reduce mortality in critically ill patients d

Expiry date: July 2003
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Authors   C   Clase , CM   Ball
Reviewer   S   Hsu
CAT Writers   C   Clase , CM   Ball