A member asked:

Why is the mortality risk so high for icu patients having acute renal failure? if you are already in the hospital, can't you start dialysis quickly?

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Renal failure death: Patients in the ICU who have a acute kidney failure (akf) have something that caused it, usually hypotension. The are very sick and have multi-systemic problems and may have an overwhelming infection leading to their akf. Although dialysis can replace kidney function lost in akf, it cannot perform any of the functions of other organs in the body. They need more than just kidney function to live.

Answered 6/10/2014

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