Acute renal failure in critically ill patients: indications for and choice of extracorporeal treatment

The prescription of extracorporeal therapy for patients with acute renal failure involves many options: dialysis sessions may be intermittent or continuous, semicontinuous or slow-extended, with controversial indications still to be defined also depending on technical and logistic issues and related...

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Published inJournal of nephrology Vol. 20; no. 1; p. 15
Main Authors Formica, Marco, Inguaggiato, Paola, Bainotti, Serena, Gigliola, Graziella, Canepari, Giorgio
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Italy 01.01.2007
Subjects
Acute Kidney Injury - physiopathology
Acute Kidney Injury - therapy
Adrenal Glands - physiopathology
Blood Glucose - physiology
Blood Pressure - physiology
Critical Care - methods
Critical Illness
Humans
Nutrition Therapy
Renal Dialysis - methods
Respiration, Artificial
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Summary:The prescription of extracorporeal therapy for patients with acute renal failure involves many options: dialysis sessions may be intermittent or continuous, semicontinuous or slow-extended, with controversial indications still to be defined also depending on technical and logistic issues and related to the multidisciplinary cooperation needed in the management of critically ill patients. All efforts to evaluate extracorporeal treatments in these patients must be targeted not only towards supporting renal function, but towards all functional and metabolic derangements that can result from artificial blood purification, in any way achievable.
ISSN:1121-8428