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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Main Authors: Benjamin R. Griffin, Sophia Ambruso, Anna Jovanovich, Anip Bansal, Stu Linas, James Dylewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-07-01
Series:Kidney Medicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590059519300457