Bedside Tool for Predicting the Risk of Postoperative Dialysis in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

H. Mehta, Rajendra; D. Grab, Joshua; M. O’Brien, Sean; R. Bridges, Charles; S. Gammie, James; K. Haan, Constance; Bruce Ferguson, T.; D. Peterson, Eric

doi:10.1161/circulationaha.106.635573

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Bedside Tool for Predicting the Risk of Postoperative Dialysis in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Published in Circulation • Nov 7, 2006

Authors:

Rajendra H. Mehta

Joshua D. Grab

Sean M. O’Brien

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Estimation of an individual patient's risk for postoperative dialysis can support informed clinical decision making and patient counseling. METHODS AND RESULTS: To develop a simple bedside risk algorithm for estimating patients' probability for dialysis after cardiac surgery, we evaluate...

Subject

Medicine

Dialysis

Cardiac surgery

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