Continuous renal replacement procedures in the intensive care unit: Understanding and differentiated application - Softcover

Heise, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3662653095 ISBN 13: 9783662653098

Publisher: Springer, 2022

Synopsis

CVVH, CVVHD and CVVHDF: These terms will soon no longer be a "black box" for you! This book is aimed at 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.

About this title

About the Author

PD Dr. med. Daniel Heise is a senior physician at the Department of Anesthesiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen; in addition to his clinical focus on intensive care medicine, he is particularly interested in training and continuing education.

From the Back Cover

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 Göttingen; 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662653095
• ISBN 13: 9783662653098
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 87