In the past decade, CRRT has moved from a niche therapy within specific specialty centers to the standard of care for management of critically ill patients with acute renal failure. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy provides concise, evidence-based, to-the-point 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; Pratice; Special Situations; and Organizational Issues, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy provides a complete view of CRRT theory and practice. Generous tables summarize and highlight key points, and key studies and trials are listed in each chapter.
Contents
Section 1: Theory
1. The critically ill patient with acute kidney injury
2. History and rationale for CRRT
3. Terminology and nomenclature
4. Basic principles of solute transport
5. Principles of fluid management
6. Indications, timing and patient selection
7. Extended indications for CRRT
8. Dose adequacy and assessment
9. Acid-base and electrolyte disorders
Section 2: Practice
10. Choosing a renal replacement therapy in AKI
11. Vascular access for continuous renal replacement therapy
12. The circuit and the prescription
13. The membrane: size and material
14. Fluids for continuous renal replacement therapy
15. Alarms and troubleshooting
16. Non anticoagulation strategies to optimise circuit function in RRT
17. Anticoagulation
18. Regional Citrate Anticoagulation
19. Drug dosing in CRRT
Section 3: Special Situations
20. Renal replacement therapy in children
21. Therapeutic plasma exchange in critical care medicine
22. MARS: molecular adsorbent recirculating system
23. Sorbents
24. Hybrid therapies
Section 4: Organizational issues
25. The ICU environment
26. Patient care quality and teamwork
27. Organizational aspects: developing policies and procedures for continuous renal replacement therapies
28. Documentation, billing and reimbursement for continuous renal replacement therapy
29. Machines for CRRT
30. Quality assurance for continuous renal replacement therapies
31. Educational resources
Section 1: Theory
1. The critically ill patient with acute kidney injury
2. History and rationale for CRRT
3. Terminology and nomenclature
4. Basic principles of solute transport
5. Principles of fluid management
6. Indications, timing and patient selection
7. Extended indications for CRRT
8. Dose adequacy and assessment
9. Acid-base and electrolyte disorders
Section 2: Practice
10. Choosing a renal replacement therapy in AKI
11. Vascular access for continuous renal replacement therapy
12. The circuit and the prescription
13. The membrane: size and material
14. Fluids for continuous renal replacement therapy
15. Alarms and troubleshooting
16. Non anticoagulation strategies to optimise circuit function in RRT
17. Anticoagulation
18. Regional Citrate Anticoagulation
19. Drug dosing in CRRT
Section 3: Special Situations
20. Renal replacement therapy in children
21. Therapeutic plasma exchange in critical care medicine
22. MARS: molecular adsorbent recirculating system
23. Sorbents
24. Hybrid therapies
Section 4: Organizational issues
25. The ICU environment
26. Patient care quality and teamwork
27. Organizational aspects: developing policies and procedures for continuous renal replacement therapies
28. Documentation, billing and reimbursement for continuous renal replacement therapy
29. Machines for CRRT
30. Quality assurance for continuous renal replacement therapies
31. Educational resources
About the Author
- John Kellum is a Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Rinaldo Bellomo is Professor of Medicine at Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia.
- Claudio Ronco is Professor of Clinical Nephrology and Medicine at St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy.
Product Details
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (December 3, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195392787
- ISBN-13: 978-0195392784
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches