title: Acute renal failure in critically ill patients: indications for and choice of extracorporeal treatment.
abstract: The prescription of extracorporeal therapy for patients with acute renal failure involves many options: dialysis sessions may be intermittent or continuous, semicontinuous or slow-extended, with controversial indications still to be defined also depending on technical and logistic issues and related to the multidisciplinary cooperation needed in the management of critically ill patients. All efforts to evaluate extracorporeal treatments in these patients must be targeted not only towards supporting renal function, but towards all functional and metabolic derangements that can result from artificial blood purification, in any way achievable.
authors.affiliation: Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, S. Croce and Carle Hospitals, Cuneo - Italy. formica.m@ospedale.cuneo.it
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Formica
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Inguaggiato
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bainotti
authors.forename: Graziella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gigliola
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Canepari
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000503:physiopathology; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000502:physiology; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods; D016638:Critical Illness; D006801:Humans; D044623:Nutrition Therapy; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose