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Preventing acute kidney injury through nephrotoxin management

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Nephrotoxin-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) is a considerable risk among hospitalized children. The development and use of a proactive, nephrotoxin screening system seems to have led to a significant improvement in AKI rates in one children's hospital, suggesting that such systems might have broader implications for patient care.

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Figure 1: An overview of the NINJA protocol to identify patients at risk of acute kidney injury.

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  1. Mark A. Perazella and F. Perry Wilson are at Yale University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520–8029, USA.,

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Perazella, M., Wilson, F. Preventing acute kidney injury through nephrotoxin management. Nat Rev Nephrol 12, 511–512 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2016.95

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