Workbook on Renal Replacement Therapy in ICU (ISCCM)

Contents: 1. Acute Kidney Injury: Definition, Classification, Diagnostic Strategies and Prevention/Kayanoosh J Kadapatti. 2. Biomarkers in Acute Kidney Injury/Siddhesh Dhaygude. 3. Principles of Renal Replacement Therapy in Critical Care/Valentine Lobo. 4. Renal Replacement Therapy: Nomenclature and Terminology/Sachin S Soni, Shriganesh R Barnela, Sonali S Saboo, Unmesh V Takalkar, Suresh H Saboo. 5. Indications and Timing of RRT in AKI/Sunitha Binu Varghese. 6. Vascular Access for Renal Replacement Therapy/Tarun K Jeloka. 7. Choosing Dialyzers and Hemofilters/Snehal Gaikwad. 8. Set Up and Prescription for CRRT/Ranajit Chatterjee, Ashutosh Garg, Juliet Merlene. 9. Set Up and Prescription for Sustained Low-efficiency Dialysis/Sunil Karanth. 10. Anticoagulation on RRT/Pradeep D’costa. 11. Acute Peritoneal Dialysis in Critical Care/Vipul Chakurkar. 12. Complications and Monitoring of Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury/Rajeev A Annigeri. 13. Chronic Kidney Disease Patient in ICU/Tarun K Jeloka. 14. Drug Dosing on Renal Replacement Therapy/Jignesh N Shah, Vishwanath C Patil. 15. Renal Replacement Therapy in Hepatorenal Syndrome/Rajasekara Chakravarthi M, Vijay Varma P, Jyothsna G. 16. Extracorporeal Therapies in Sepsis: An Update/Ranajit Chatterjee, Ashutosh Garg. 17. Extracorporeal Therapies in Poisoning/Valentine Lobo. 18. Nutrition for Acute Kidney Injury Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy/Venkatesh Dhat. 19. Renal Replacement Therapy in ICU: Infection Control and Prevention/Sushma Gurav, Kapil Zirpe. Index. 

This workbook and the workshop run by the Pune Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) branch are an attempt to fill the existing gaps and provide an adequate knowledge for intensivists and nephrologists to provide the most appropriate renal replacement therapy in their individual ICUs. A group of nephrologists and intensivists many of whom have started as pioneers and emerged as experts in the field have combined to put together the subsequent chapters in this book.

Key Features

• The book Workbook on Renal Replacement Therapy in ICU is designed as a workbook which will serve as a practical guide for beginners in intensive care and nephrologists who are dealing with critically ill patients on a day-to-day basis.

• Comprehensive workbook dealing with care of ICU patients on renal replacement therapy.

• Compiled by experts from both Intensive Care and Nephrology based on latest literature evidence and experience.

• Equipped with illustrations/flow charts.