Reading between the (guide)lines--the KDIGO practice guideline on acute kidney injury in the individual patient.

The KDIGO guidelines for acute kidney injury (AKI) are designed to assist health-care providers around the world in managing patients with AKI. Clinical guidelines are intended to help the clinician make an informed decision based on review of the currently available evidence. Due to the generic nature of guidelines, it is sometimes difficult to translate a guideline for a particular individual patient who may have specific clinical circumstances. To illustrate this point, we have discussed the interpretation of the KDIGO guideline in patients who have subtleties in their clinical presentation, which may make treatment decisions less than straightforward.

急性肾损伤（AKI）的KDIGO指南旨在帮助世界各地的医疗服务提供者管理AKI患者。临床指南旨在帮助临床医生根据对当前现有证据的回顾做出明智的决策。由于指南的通用性，有时很难将指南应用于可能有特定临床情况的个别患者。为了说明这一点，我们讨论了在临床表现有细微差异的患者中对KDIGO指南的解读，这可能会使治疗决策不那么直接。