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Etienne Macedo1, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Ravindra L Mehta.
Abstract
The results of several studies assessing dialysis dose have dampened the enthusiasm of clinicians for considering dialysis dose as a modifiable factor influencing outcomes in patients with acute kidney injury. Powerful evidence from two large, multicenter trials indicates that increasing the dialysis dose, measured as hourly effluent volume, has no benefit in continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). However, some important operational characteristics that affect delivered dose were not evaluated. Effluent volume does not correspond to the actual delivered dose, as a decline in filter efficacy reduces solute removal during therapy. We believe that providing accurate parameters of delivered dose could improve the delivery of a prescribed dose and refine the assessment of the effect of dose on outcomes in critically ill patients treated with CRRT.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22045240 DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.172
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Nephrol ISSN: 1759-5061 Impact factor: 28.314