Critical Care Nephrology, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics
By John Kellum, MD
240 pp.,
Copyright 2005
ISBN:1416026843
Contents:
1. Prevention of Acute Renal Failure (Venkataraman) 2. Renal Replacement Therapy I: Indications and Timing (Palevsky) 3. The Kidney in Sepsis (Himmelfarb) 4. Unified Theories of Organ Dysfunction in Critical Illness (Fink) 5. Defining, Classifying, and Quantifying Acute Renal Dysfunction (Bellomo) 6. Epidemiology and Natural History of Acute Renal Failure in the ICU (Angus) 7. Physiologic Consequences of Acute Renal Failure on the Critically Ill (Hoste) 8. Renal Replacement Therapy II: Dialysis Dose (Ronco) 9. Pathophysiology of ARF (Citeren) 10. Radio Contrast Nephropathy (Soman and McCullough) 11. The Future of Renal Support: High Flux Dialysis to Bio-artificial Kidneys (Cichonski and Humes)