as the world’s population continues to age, practitioners encounter increasing numbers of older patients with end-stage renal disease (esrd) who require renal replacement therapy (rrt). conservative management may be considered in older patients and has been shown to offer comparable survival rates and hospital-free days to rrt patients. at present, for those who choose rrt, hemodialysis is the...

BACKGROUND The optimal time to initiate renal replacement therapy (RRT) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is unclear. We examined the impact of early RRT on long-term mortality, risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). METHODS This cohort study included all adult patients treated with continuous RRT in the ICU at Aarhus Unive...

INTRODUCTION Patients with severe acute kidney injury (AKI) who are hospitalized at centers that do not provide renal replacement therapy (RRT) are frequently subjected to inter-hospital transfer for the provision of RRT. It is unclear whether such transfers are associated with worse patient outcomes as compared with the receipt of initial care in a center that provides RRT. This study examined...

Path planning is an important aspect and component in the research of mobile-robot-related technologies. Many path algorithms are only applicable to static environments, while practical tasks, uncertainty dynamic environments increases difficulty obstacle avoidance compared with environments. To address this problem, paper proposes RRT*-FDWA algorithm. RRT* first generates a global optimal path...

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic optimality property of a randomized sampling based motion planner, namely RRT. We prove that a RRT planner is not an asymptotically optimal motion planner. Our result, while being consistent with similar results which exist in the literature, however, brings out an important characteristics of a RRT planner. We show that the degree distribution of the...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) in ICU patients is typically associated with other severe conditions that require special attention when renal replacement therapy (RRT) is performed. RRT includes a wide range of techniques, each with specific characteristics and implications for use in ICU patients. In the present review we discuss a wide range of conditions that can occur in ICU patients who have AK...

End stage renal disease is a relatively frequent disease with high mortality due to cardiac causes. Permanent pacemaker (PM) implantation rates are also very common; thus combination of both conditions is not unusual. We hypothesized that patients with chronic kidney disease with a PM would have significantly higher mortality rates compared with end stage renal disease patients without PM. Our ...

and colleagues on early versus late renal replacement therapy (RRT) in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) [1]. Th e authors rightly cite enormous heterogeneity between the 15 studies reviewed as a key concern. We would like to focus on the varied approach and lack of consensus in defi ning early and late initiation of RRT, as all of the 15 studies quote diff erent defi nitio...

In this paper, an arm trajectory generation method based on the Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree Star (RRT*) is proposed for humanoid robot. The RRT* is one of anytime motion planning algorithms. The RRT* adopts the three fundamental components from the RRT, the preceding version of RRT*: the state variables, local planner, and cost function. The end effector of humanoid robot is positioned on the...

Background: The aim of this study is to report Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) incidence and prevalence rates, the percentage of incident patients with diabetes mellitus as cause of renal disease, the RRT modality mix and the transplant rate in different countries. The number of national or regional registries collecting and reporting data pertaining to traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk fact...