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Acute renal failure

Prevalence
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Therapy

Dialyse a patients who fail to respond a as advised by a specialist. d  

Note:

  • Patients require dialysis for an average of 13 days. a
  • An intensive dialysis regimen is not clearly better than a normal regimen in patients with acute renal failure maintaining predialysis urea < 60, creatinine < 5 mg/dl. d

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