Why the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) in critically ill patients can no longer be ignored

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Geb. A1, 48149, Munster, Germany. zarbock@uni-muenster.de.
• ² Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA.
• ³ Department of Critical Care, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁴ Department of Intensive Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
• ⁵ Department of Intensive Care, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia.
• ⁶ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.