(eBook) Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis by Sidharth Kumar Sethi

This is the PDF eBook version for Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis – A Practical Handbook by Sidharth Kumar Sethi, Rupesh Raina, Mignon McCulloch, Timothy E. Bunchman

Table of Contents

Critically ill child with acute kidney injury.- Kidney function monitoring in a sick child.- Acute kidney injury- definitions & epidemiology.- Acute kidney injury- diagnosis; biomarkers.- Neonatal AKI.- Hemolytic uremic syndrome.- Acute kidney injury- principles of management.- Fluid overload in pediatric AKI, and it’s assessment.- Nutrition in acute kidney injury.- Pharmacology of a critically ill child and drug dosing.- Peritoneal dialysis.- Vascular access.- Anticoagulation.- Hemodialysis.- SLED and hybrid therapies.- CRRT.- Plasmapheresis in the PICU.- Special situations.- Advances in pediatric RRT- NIDUS, CARPEDIEM, aquadex.- Acute kidney injury- outcomes.