Category CCC

The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.

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Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia

Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia (COP) is also known as bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP); not the same as bronchiolitis obliterans; the rapidly progressive form has a very poor prognosis

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Sepsis Overview

The LITFL Critical Care Compendium (CCC) has numerous entries on sepsis, this page collates them

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Acute Kidney Injury

AKI is the entire spectrum of disease (mild -> severe), and can be defined as an abrupt (1 to 7 days) and sustained (more than 24 hours) decrease in kidney function. Mortality of critically patients with acute renal failure is high (50%–60%)

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Renal Transplant Patient

Renal Transplant; commonest transplant; anastamosed to common iliac artery and vein in the pelvis. the ureter is plumbed into the bladder; allows ease of access for palpation and biopsy

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RIFLE Criteria and AKIN Classification

AKI can be defined as an abrupt (1 to 7 days) and sustained (more than 24 hours) decrease in kidney function. The ADQI formulated the RIFLE criteria in 2004 to allow for AKI to be objectively and uniformly defined.

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Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) is a hypometabolic, immunodepressed state with clinical and biochemical evidence of decreased functioning of the body's organ systems that develops subsequent to an acute injury or illness.