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When to correct coagulopathy in acute kidney injury?

Author(s) -

Manpreet Kaur,

Babita Gupta,

Nita D′souza,

Seema Shende

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

anesthesia essays and researches

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0259-1162

DOI - 10.4103/0259-1162.108355

Subject(s) - medicine , coagulopathy , acute kidney injury , polytrauma , hyperkalemia , renal replacement therapy , intensive care medicine , bleed , surgery

Incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in adult trauma patients is 18% with 70% requiring renal replacement therapy. It is a challenge to treat AKI with coagulopathy since there are no defined transfusion triggers for these patients. We report a case wherein a polytrauma patient developed AKI for which he/she was dialysed and subsequently had an intracerebral bleed. There is a need to develop guidelines to transfusion triggers in AKI patients keeping vigilance on fluid overload, hyperkalemia and uraemia-induced platelet dysfunction.

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