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Rinaldo Bellomo

Rinaldo Bellomo

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2025
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Medicine
Australia
2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Rinaldo Bellomo is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has a substantial body of research primarily focused on medicine, with significant contributions in nephrology, critical care and intensive care medicine, surgery, emergency medicine, and epidemiology.

Their research centers on the study of acute kidney injury, sepsis diagnosis and treatment, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, hemodynamic monitoring and therapy, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes, as well as trauma, hemostasis, coagulopathy, and resuscitation.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Critical Care and Resuscitation
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Blood Purification
  • Critical Care
  • Journal of Critical Care

Their most recent papers illustrate the focus on critical care and nephrology topics:

  • "Timing of Initiation of Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 28th Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroup," 2023, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • "Controversies in acute kidney injury: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference," 2020, Kidney International
  • "Effect of Vitamin C, Hydrocortisone, and Thiamine vs Hydrocortisone Alone on Time Alive and Free of Vasopressor Support Among Patients With Septic Shock," 2020, JAMA
  • "Early Active Mobilization during Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU," 2022, New England Journal of Medicine

Rinaldo Bellomo has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably:

  • Glenn M. Eastwood (95 joint publications)
  • Michael Bailey (68 joint publications)
  • Andrew Udy (53 joint publications)
  • Paul J. Young (52 joint publications)
  • Ary Serpa Neto (44 joint publications)

The scope of their academic work encompasses 1,242 publications in medicine, with 223 focusing on nephrology and 162 addressing critical care and intensive care medicine. Other notable subfields include surgery, emergency medicine, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    Mervyn Singer;Clifford S. Deutschman;Christopher Warren Seymour;Manu Shankar-Hari

  • Acute renal failure - definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group.

    Rinaldo Bellomo;Claudio Ronco;John A Kellum;Ravindra L Mehta

  • Intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients.

    Nice-Sugar Study Investigators;D. Chittock;S. Su;D. Blair

  • Acute Renal Failure in Critically Ill Patients: A Multinational, Multicenter Study

    Shigehiko Uchino;John A Kellum;Rinaldo Bellomo;Gordon S Doig

  • A comparison of albumin and saline for fluid resuscitation in the intensive care unit

    Rinaldo Bellomo;Julie French;John Myburgh

  • Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: the multinational AKI-EPI study

    Eric A.J. Hoste;Eric A.J. Hoste;Eric A.J. Hoste;Sean M. Bagshaw;Rinaldo Bellomo;Cynthia M. Cely

  • Acute kidney injury

    Rinaldo Bellomo;John A Kellum;Claudio Ronco

  • Effects of different doses in continuous veno-venous haemofiltration on outcomes of acute renal failure: a prospective randomised trial.

    Claudio Ronco;Rinaldo Bellomo;Peter Homel;Alessandra Brendolan

  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

    Andrew Davies;Daryl Jones;Michael Bailey;John Beca

  • Hydroxyethyl starch or saline for fluid resuscitation in intensive care

    John A. Myburgh;Simon Finfer;Rinaldo Bellomo;Laurent Billot

  • Goal-directed resuscitation for patients with early septic shock

    Sandra Lois Peake;Anthony Delaney;Michael John Bailey;Rinaldo Bellomo

  • State-of-the-Art PaperCardiorenal Syndrome

    Claudio Ronco;Mikko Haapio;Andrew A. House;Nagesh Anavekar

  • Mortality related to severe sepsis and septic shock among critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand, 2000-2012

    Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen;Michael John Bailey;Satoshi Suzuki;David V Pilcher

  • Intensity of continuous renal-replacement therapy in critically ill patients.

    Rinaldo Bellomo;Alan Cass;Louise Cole

  • Introduction of the medical emergency team (MET) system: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

    Ken Hillman;Jack Chen;Michelle Cretikos;Rinaldo Bellomo

  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Criteria in Defining Severe Sepsis

    Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen;Michael John Bailey;David V Pilcher;David James Cooper

  • Critical care services and 2009 H1N1 influenza in australia and new zealand.

    Steven A R Webb;Ville Yrjo Olavi Pettila;Ian M Seppelt;Rinaldo Bellomo

  • Accuracy of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) in Diagnosis and Prognosis in Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Michael Haase;Rinaldo Bellomo;Prasad V Devarajan;Peter Schlattmann

  • Hepatorenal syndrome: the 8th international consensus conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group

    Mitra K Nadim;John A. Kellum;Andrew Davenport;Florence Wong

  • Goal-Directed Resuscitation for Patients with Early Septic Shock The ARISE Investigators and the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group*

    Sandra L. Peake;Michael Bailey;Rinaldo Bellomo;D. James Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Ronco
Claudio Ronco University of Padua
Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey Monash University
Sean M. Bagshaw
Sean M. Bagshaw University of Alberta
John A. Kellum
John A. Kellum University of Pittsburgh
Simon Finfer
Simon Finfer George Institute for Global Health
Ian T. Baldwin
Ian T. Baldwin Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Giovanni Landoni
Giovanni Landoni Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Theodore J. Iwashyna
Theodore J. Iwashyna University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard Beasley
Richard Beasley Medical Research Institute of New Zealand
Ken Hillman
Ken Hillman University of New South Wales

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