Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Dosing in the Severely Underweight: A Case Report
Guidelines recommend that patients treated with continuous renal replacement therapy be delivered an effluent dose of 20 to 25 mL/kg/h. There is debate, especially at the extremes of body mass index, as to whether actual or ideal body weight (IBW) should be used in these dose calculations. A middle-...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-07-01
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Series: | Kidney Medicine |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590059519300457 |