Medicina intensiva
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Intensive medicine has the opportunity to create an interactive virtual community using Web 2.0. The main feature of this new web generation is to convert the user into an active element of the virtual world, allowing the passive, information-searching user to become one who creates, shares, participates and closely relates to it. These features make it possible for the clinical sphere, the researcher and the innovator to coincide, thus providing interaction not only among the members of the virtual community but also with citizens and patients. The creation of a Web 2.0-based
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Review Comparative Study
[Intermittent versus continuous renal replacement techniques: pro intermittent].
After an introduction that summarizes the new definitions and risk classification of acute kidney injury, along with the consequences on its epidemiology, available evidence in the literature is reviewed in order to compare intermittent and continuous renal replacement therapy in terms of survival, renal function recovery, hemodynamic stability, transferences between the different techniques and major complications.