Clinical practice guideline on prevention of rhabdomyolysis induced acute kidney injury: Endorsement by the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Abstract

Practice Committee endorses the recent DASAIM/DSIT guideline for prevention of rhabdomyolysis-induced acute kidney injury. However, we emphasize the low quality of evidence with only weak recommendations for all interventions, highlighting that further research is very likely to have an important impact on the confidence in the estimate of effect and is likely to change the estimates.

A lingua franca for guidelines—or a Tower of Babel?

“…Recently, the Clinical Practice Committee (CPC) of the SSAI has endorsed several guidelines developed by other societies. [12][13][14][15][16][17] In most cases, this is a straightforward business: the CPC uses a validated tool, AGREE II, to assess the quality and reporting of the guideline in question independently and transparently. 15 When guideline developers have used GRADE, the understanding has been that little translation is needed.…”