Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury: Is COVID-19 different?

Faced with a new disease, clinicians understandably resort to what they know. For example, we know severe viral pneumonia secondary to influenza, so when we began seeing COVID-19, our first impression was that it was a similar disease, so we felt we knew how to manage it. However, it soon became clear that COVID-19 was strikingly different. First, there was the high transmission rate including spread within hospitals and health care workers 1 —but this could simply have been due to a new disease in a naïve population.

Source: Kidney International - September 8, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: John A. Kellum, Mitra K. Nadim, Lui G. Forni Tags: editorial Source Type: research