Amino acid infusion for protection from acute kidney injury
PROTECTION trial tests the therapy in cardiac surgery patients
Acute kidney injury develops commonly in critically ill patients, and no intervention has ever been shown to prevent it.
(Isotonic crystalloid given intravenously to high-risk patients before and during cardiac catheterization probably prevents some contrast nephropathy, although the evidence is less than certain.)
Patients undergoing…
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