Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 136

Welcome to the 136th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature. This edition contains 6 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Justin Morgenstern, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check out the full list of R&R contributors This Edition’s R&R Hall of Famer Research and Critical Appraisal   Gaudry S, et al. Initiation Strategies for Renal-Replacement Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit. New England Journal of Medicine. 2016 PMID: 25902813 The Artificial Kidney Initiation in Kidney Injury (AKIKI) trial was an unblinded, prospective, multicentre, open-label, two-group randomized study conducted in France. 620 patients with severe acute kidney injury defined as KDIGO stage 3 (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes classification, who required mechanical ventilation, catecholamine infusion, or both and did not have a potentially life-threatening complication directly related to renal failure were randomized to either either an early or a delayed strategy of rena...
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