INTRODUCTION Although renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a common procedure in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), its efficacy remains uncertain. Patients who receive RRT usually have higher mortality rates than those who do not. However, many differences exist in severity patterns between patients with and those without RRT and available results are further confounded by t...

In 2018, World Kidney Day (WKD) and International Women's Day coincide. The WKD editorial focuses on women's kidney health. The European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) Registry Annual Report 2015 summary provides an excellent snapshot of renal replacement therapy (RRT) epidemiology and women in Europe. The WKD editorial reports a lower incidence of RRT...

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common in heart failure (HF) and is associated with poor outcomes. Renal replacement therapy (RRT) may be deferred over concerns regarding tolerability and outcomes in HF. Our objectives were to ascertain the incidence of RRT, changes in RRT incidence over time and the association between RRT and survival in hospitalized HF patients. METHODS A retros...

An experimental CATI-survey (N=2041), asking sensitive questions about xenophobia and anti-Semitism in Germany, was conducted to compare the randomized response technique (RRT) and the direct questioning technique. Unlike the vast majority of RRT surveys measuring the prevalence of socially undesirable behaviors, only few studies have explored the effectiveness of the RRT with respect to the di...

We present RRT, the first asymptotically optimal samplingbased motion planning algorithm for real-time navigation in dynamic environments (containing obstacles that unpredictably appear, disappear, and move). Whenever obstacle changes are observed, e.g., by onboard sensors, a graph rewiring cascade quickly updates the search-graph and repairs its shortest-path-to-goal subtree. Both graph and tr...

In this paper we introduce a novel RRT extend function for wheeled mobile robots. The approach computes closed-loop forward simulations based on the kinematic model of the robot and enables the planner to efficiently generate smooth and feasible paths that connect any pairs of states. We extend the control law of an existing discontinuous state feedback controller to make it usable as an RRT ex...

BACKGROUND Variation in end-stage renal disease treatment rates in the UK persist after adjustment for socio-demographic factors. METHODS UK-wide ecological study using population socio-demographic factors, health status characteristics and access to health services factor in to explain the incidence of renal replacement therapy (RRT). RESULTS There was a 6% higher incidence rate of RRT per...

INTRODUCTION Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a fully established treatment for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) but there are no scientifically established criteria when to initiate it. Our objectives were to describe the epidemiology of critically ill patients with AKI receiving RRT and to evaluate the relationship between biochemical, physiological and comorbid factor...

INTRODUCTION Acute kidney injury (AKI) remains a serious clinical problem in the intensive care unit (ICU). It constitutes an independent risk factor for mortality, especially when renal replacement therapy (RRT) is required. AIM Due to limited evidence pertaining to timing, choice of RRT modality and lack of studies investigating AKI in Polish ICUs, we sought to analyse outcomes of adult AKI...