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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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.

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Cognitive Dispositions to Respond

Reviewed and revised 8 December 2014 OVERVIEW Cognitive Dispositions to Respond (CDRs) or cognitive biases are:  “Predictable tendencies, or biases, to react to contextual clues that are largely unconscious and may contribute to flaws in reasoning; a mental state that embraces…

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Fluid bolus therapy

Fluid bolus therapy is widely administered to patients with undifferentiated hypotension and for patients with severe sepsis

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Fluid Challenge

The fluid challenge (FC) aims at identifying patients in whom fluid administration improves haemodynamics (known as "fluid responsiveness")

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Adaptive Trial Designs

An adaptive clinical trial involves a study design in which key characteristics are adjusted while enrollment in the trial is ongoing using prospectively defined decision rules and in response to information arising from the data accumulating in the trial