Crit Care Resusc
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The Standard versus Accelerated Initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury (STARRT-AKI) trial is a multinational randomised controlled trial that will enrol a minimum of 2866 patients comparing two strategies for initiating renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. ⋯ ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02568722 (6 October 2015).
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Observational Study
The epidemiology of in-hospital cardiac arrests in Australia: a prospective multicentre observational study.
Australian in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) literature is limited, and mostly published before rapid response teams (RRTs). Contemporary data may inform strategies to improve IHCA outcomes. ⋯ Among seven Australian hospitals, IHCAs were infrequent, mostly occurred in older medical patients early in the hospital admission. Most were non-shockable, ICU therapy was extensive and nearly two-thirds of patients died in hospital. Further strategies are needed to prevent and improve ICHA outcomes.