Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Acute kidney injury in children".)
International
●Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) and PeriOperative Quality Initiative (POQI): Joint consensus report on postoperative acute kidney injury in adult non-cardiac surgery (2021)
●ADQI: Recommendations on acute kidney injury biomarkers – A consensus statement (2020)
●International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD): Guidelines for peritoneal dialysis for acute kidney injury (adults), update (2020)
●Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO): Clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury (2012)
Canada
●Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR): Guidance on contrast associated acute kidney injury (2022)
United States
●American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC): Guidance document on laboratory investigation of acute kidney injury (2021)
●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on renal failure (revised 2020)
●National Kidney Foundation-Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF-KDOQI): US commentary on the 2012 KDIGO clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury (2013)
●American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN): Clinical guidelines on nutritional support in adult acute and chronic renal failure (2010)
Europe
●European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Expert opinion on the prevention of acute kidney injury and protection of renal function in the intensive care unit, update (2017)
●European Renal Best Practice (ERBP): Position statement on the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical practice guidelines on acute kidney injury – Part 2: Renal replacement therapy (2013)
●ERBP: Position statement on the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical practice guidelines on acute kidney injury – Part 1: Definitions, conservative management, and contrast-induced nephropathy (2012)
●ERBP: Recommendations for the management of crush victims in mass disasters (2012)
●European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN): Guidelines on parenteral nutrition – Adult renal failure (2009)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on acute kidney injury – Prevention, detection, and management (2019, updated 2023)
●NICE: Quality standard on acute kidney injury (2014, updated 2023)
●UK Kidney Association (UKKA): Clinical practice guideline on sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibition in adults with kidney disease (2023)
●The Renal Association (RA): Clinical practice guideline – Acute kidney injury (AKI) (2019)
Australia–New Zealand
●Kidney Health Australia-Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment (KHA-CARI): Adaptation of the KDIGO clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury (2014)
Japan
●[In English] Japan Society of Nephrology (JSN), Japan Intensive Care Medicine Society (JSICM), Japanese Society of Dialysis Medicine (JSDT), Japanese Society of Blood Purification in Critical Care, and Japanese Society of Pediatric Nephrology (JSPN): The Japanese clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury 2016 (published 2018)
●[In Japanese] JSN, JSICM, JSDT, Japanese Society of Blood Purification in Critical Care, and JSPN: Clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury 2016 (published 2017)
