Continuous renal replacement procedures in the intensive care unit : Understanding and differentiated application / [E-Book]

Historical developments -- Proven to the present day: Continuous hemofiltration -- Characteristics of renal replacement therapy -- Dialysis: Exchange without flow -- Best of both worlds: Hemodiafiltration -- Sour grapes: Citrate anticoagulation -- Under pressure: Pressure parameters of renal replacement therapy -- Let's go!

CVVH, CVVHD and CVVHDF: these terms will soon no longer be a "black box" for you! This book is intended for physicians and nurses in intensive care units who want to both apply and understand continuous renal replacement procedures. Step by step, the functionalities and characteristics of all common renal replacement procedures, such as continuous veno-venous hemofiltration, hemodialysis, and hemodiafiltration, are explained in a comprehensible manner and the clinical implications of the parameters to be set are described. A separate chapter is devoted to the topic of citrate anticoagulation, an understanding of which is essential when using continuous renal replacement procedures. With this knowledge, the most suitable therapy can be selected for each patient and optimally adapted to the patient's needs. The author PD Dr. med. Daniel Heise is a senior physician at the Department of Anesthesiology at the University Medical Center Gt̲tingen; inaddition to his clinical focus on intensive care medicine, he is particularly interested in training and continuing education. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.