Full Description
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.
Contents
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
Dehua Gong and Claudio Ronco
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
