Controversies in acute kidney injury the 2011 Brussels Roundtable.docVIP

Kellum and Ronco Critical Care 2011,15:155 /content/15/2/155 COMMENTARY Controversies in acute kidney injury: the 2011 Brussels Roundtable John A Kellum* and Claudio Ronco 1 2 were therefore set at small changes in serum creatinine or urine output, and when these criteria were applied to intensive care [2], hospital or even population-based [3] cohorts two observations were made. First, AKI is common, occurring in as many as two-thirds of ICU patients [2] and about 2,100 per million population [3], a