Paul M Palevsky, Jane Hongyuan Zhang, Theresa Z O'Connor, Glenn M Chertow, Susan T Crowley, Devasmita Choudhury, Kevin Finkel, John A Kellum, Emil Paganini, Roland M H Schein, Mark W Smith, Kathleen M Swanson, B Taylor Thompson, Anitha Vijayan, Suzanne Watnick, Robert A Star, Peter Peduzzi
BACKGROUND: The optimal intensity of renal-replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury is controversial. METHODS: We randomly assigned critically ill patients with acute kidney injury and failure of at least one nonrenal organ or sepsis to receive intensive or less intensive renal-replacement therapy. The primary end point was death from any cause by day 60. In both study groups, hemodynamically stable patients underwent intermittent hemodialysis, and hemodynamically unstable patients underwent continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration or sustained low-efficiency dialysis...
July 3, 2008: New England Journal of Medicine