The AVF Podcast: ICU Tips & Tricks invites colleagues to share anything and everything on how they deal with various clinical situations. Expect discussions on how experts personalise evidence-based medicine for the patient at the bedside.
In this episode, Professor Stephane Gaudry discusses his evidence-based approach to kidney-replacement therapy (KRT). Professor Gaudry is a physician in the critical care department at Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris and at Sorbonne Paris Nord Universite. He is the first author of the landmark Artificial Kidney Initiation in Kidney Injury (AKIKI) and AKIKI 2 studies, a systematic review on the timing of KRT published in The Lancet, and a recent narrative review on KRT published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Issues discussed in this interview:
• What acute kidney injury is
• When to start KRT
• Intermittent versus continuous KRT
• Intensity of KRT
• When to stop KRT
• Future research areas for KRT and acute kidney injury
Work cited:
1. Gaudry S, Palevsky PM, Dreyfuss D. Extracorporeal kidney-replacement therapy for acute kidney injury. N Engl J Med 2022;386:964-75.
2. Gaudry S, Hajage D, Benichou N, et al. Delayed versus early initiation of renal replacement therapy for severe acute kidney injury: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials. Lancet 2020;395:1506-15.
3. Gaudry S, Hajage D, Schortgen F, et al. Initiation strategies for renal-replacement therapy in the intensive care unit. N Engl J Med 2016;375:122-33.
4. Barbar SD, Clere-Jehl R, Bourredjem A, et al. Timing of renal-replacement therapy in patients with acute kidney injury and sepsis. N Engl J Med 2018;379:1431-42.
5. Starrt-Aki Investigators, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, Australian New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, et al. Timing of initiation of renal-replacement therapy in acute kidney injury. N Engl J Med 2020;383:240-51.
6. Gaudry S, Hajage D, Martin-Lefevre L, et al. Comparison of two delayed strategies for renal replacement therapy initiation for severe acute kidney injury (AKIKI 2): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled trial. Lancet 2021;397:1293-300.
7. Vinsonneau C, Camus C, Combes A, et al. Continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration versus intermittent haemodialysis for acute renal failure in patients with multiple-organ dysfunction syndrome: a multicentre randomised trial. Lancet 2006;368:379-85.
8. Rabindranath K, Adams J, Macleod AM, Muirhead N. Intermittent versus continuous renal replacement therapy for acute renal failure in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2007:CD003773.
9. Mehta RL, McDonald B, Gabbai FB, et al. A randomized clinical trial of continuous versus intermittent dialysis for acute renal failure. Kidney Int 2001;60:1154-63.
10. Schortgen F, Soubrier N, Delclaux C, et al. Hemodynamic tolerance of intermittent hemodialysis in critically ill patients: usefulness of practice guidelines. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000;162:197-202.
11. VA NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network, Palevsky PM, Zhang JH, et al. Intensity of renal support in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. N Engl J Med 2008;359:7-20.
12. Renal Replacement Therapy Study Investigators, Bellomo R, Cass A, et al. Intensity of continuous renal-replacement therapy in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med 2009;361:1627-38.
13. Gaudry S, Grolleau F, Barbar S, et al. Continuous renal replacement therapy versus intermittent hemodialysis as first modality for renal replacement therapy in severe acute kidney injury: a secondary analysis of AKIKI and IDEAL-ICU studies. Crit Care 2022;26:93.
14. Poyan Mehr A, Tran MT, Ralto KM, et al. De novo NAD(+) biosynthetic impairment in acute kidney injury in humans. Nat Med 2018;24:1351-9.
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