Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) is the standard of care for management of critically ill patients with acute renal failure. This guide provides concise, evidence-based, bedside guidance about this treatment modality, offering quick reference answers to clinicians' questions about treatments and situations encountered in daily practice. Organized into sections on theory, practice, special situations, and organizational issues, this volume provides a complete view of CRRT theory and practice. Tables highlight key points, whilst key studies and trials are included in each chapter. The third edition includes a new chapter on net ultrafiltration rate, throughout updated content ensures terminology and nomenclature match current standards, and the most up-to-date information on newly developed CRRT machines.
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Chapter 1: The critically ill patient with AKI John A. Kellum and Aditya Uppalapati Chapter 2: History and rationale for CRRT Claudio Ronco and Ilona Bobek Chapter 3: Terminology and Nomenclature Thiago Reis, Claudio Ronco, Rinaldo Bellomo, and John A. Kellum Chapter 4: Basic principles of solute transport Claudio Ronco and Bill Clark Chapter 5: Principles of fluid management in the ICU Rinaldo Bellomo and Sean M. Bagshaw Chapter 6: Indications, timing and patient selection John A, Kellum, Ragavan Murugan, and Mitra Nadim Chapter 7: Biomarkers Lakhmir Chawla and Alexander Zarbock Chapter 8: Extended indications Rinaldo Bellomo Ian Baldwin Chapter 9: Dose adequacy and assessment Zaccaria Ricci, Thiago Reis, Claudio Ronco Chapter 10: Acid-base and electrolytes John A. Kellum Chapter 11: Choosing a therapy Jorge Cerdá and Claudio Ronco Chapter 12: Vascular access Kai Singbartl and Alexander Zarbock Chapter 13: The circuit and the prescription Rinaldo Bellomo and Ian Baldwin Chapter 14: The membrane: size and material Claudio Ronco and Bill Clark Chapter 15: Fluids John A. Kellum and Paul Palevsky Chapter 16: Net Ultrafiltration Rate Ragavan Murugan, John A. Kellum, and Rinaldo Bellomo Chapter 17: Alarms and troubleshooting Zaccaria Ricci, Ian Baldwin, and Claudio Ronco Chapter 18: Maintaining circuit patency Ian Baldwin Chapter 19: Anticoagulation Rinaldo Bellomo and Ian Baldwin Chapter 20: Regional Citrate Anticoagulation Rinaldo Bellomo Chapter 21: Drug dosing on CRRT Sandra Kane-Gill Chapter 22: Pediatrics Dana Fuhrman and Michael L. Moritz Chapter 23: Therapeutic plasma exchange Joseph E. Kiss Chapter 24: MARS Rinaldo Bellomo Chapter 25: Sorbents Gonzalo Ramírez-Guerrero, Claudio Ronco, Thiago Reis, and Dehua Gong Chapter 26: Hybrid therapies Claudio Ronco Chapter 27: Patient Care Quality and Teamwork Kim Whiteman and Fred Tasota Chapter 28: Starting a CRRT program Jorge Cerdá Chapter 29: Billing and Reimbursement Kevin Finkel Chapter 30: Machines Anna Lorenzin and Claudio Ronco Chapter 31: QI (What can go wrong) Rinaldo Bellomo and Ian Baldwin Chapter 32: Training Education Kim Whiteman and Ian Baldwin
