Kidney dialysis and resuscitation

• Kidney dialysis in resuscitation situations involves a multitude of techniques and a wide variety of methods for its implementation.
• Since the matter of its impact on the patient’s prognosis and on kidney function, it is necessary to make sure that teams in charge of these patients receive the best possible training in order to guarantee both efficacy and safety.
• The chapters in this book, compiled by well-known experts who are all highly experienced users of these techniques, describe both the principles but also – and more importantly – the practice of the kidney dialysis methods in resuscitation. The following procedures are presented: clearance, treatment doses, indications for different techniques, anticoagulation methods, including regional anticoagulation with citrate, specificities about patients (hepatorenal syndrome, tumour lysis syndrome, paediatrics) or techniques (haemoadsorption, plasmapheresis).
• Anyone involved in this field will find this to be an essential tool for their everyday practice

 CONTENTS

▪ Kidney dialysis indications 

▪ Techniques and results of kidney dialysis

▪ How to prescribe continuous haemofiltration? 

▪ Principles of haemodialysis

▪ Role of haemodialysis in resuscitation

▪ How to prescribe intermittent haemodialysis?

▪ Management of alarms in kidney dialysis in resuscitation situations

▪ Assembly of a machine, organisation of nursing care

▪ Risks, safety measures and monitoring of kidney dialysis in resuscitation situations

▪ Choice, purchase and maintenance of a haemofiltration monitor

▪ Choice of a substitution solution in kidney dialysis in resuscitation situations

▪ Sepsis, inflammation and haemofiltration

▪ Haemofiltration cascades in the course of serious inflammatory states

▪ Plasmapheresis

▪ Haemo-adsorption techniques in the course of serious inflammatory states

▪ Choice of membranes in kidney dialysis in resuscitation situations

▪ Haemodynamic monitoring in continuous haemofiltration ?

▪ General pharmacokinetic principles in continuous haemofiltration

▪ Anti-thrombosis treatment in kidney dialysis in resuscitation situations

▪ Anticoagulation with citrate

▪ Antibiotics and continuous haemofiltration

▪ Nutrition in the course of continuous haemofiltration 

▪ The vascular approach in continuous haemofiltration 

▪ Quality of water and maintenance of dialysis generators

▪ Haemofiltration in paediatric and adult extracorporeal circulation

▪ Haemofiltration for heart failure

▪ Kidney dialysis in resuscitation situations and paediatrics

▪ Kidney dialysis in resuscitation in oncohaematology patients

▪ Kidney dialysis in resuscitation in hepato-renal syndrome

▪ Continuous haemofiltration and toxicology