Effluent Volume in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Overestimates the Delivered Dose of Dialysis

Rolando Claure‐Del Granado, Etienne Macedo, Glenn M. Chertow, Sharon Soroko, Jonathan Himmelfarb, T. Alp İkizler, Ravindra L. Mehta

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 2010 · 112 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

Effluent volume significantly overestimates delivered dose of small solutes in CRRT. To assess adequacy of CRRT, solute clearance should be measured rather than estimated by the effluent volume.

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