Acute Kidney Failure (Noun)
Meaning
Renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- Burns can lead to systemic inflammation, hypovolemia, and subsequently, acute kidney failure.
- Sepsis secondary to a traumatic injury and infection, caused severe and potentially life-threatening acute kidney failure.
- Older patients are particularly vulnerable to trauma-related acute kidney injury and its serious sequelae, such as respiratory and cardiovascular complications.
- One week post-injury, patients began showing acute kidney failure likely related to multiple traumatic injuries, along with inadequate hydration.
- There are associations between burns covering greater body surface areas and traumatic patients being more prone to post-burn and trauma related acute kidney failure.