Valentina Pistolesi, Santo Morabito, Vincenzo Pota, Fabrizio Valente, Francesca Di Mario, Enrico Fiaccadori, Giacomo Grasselli, Nicola Brienza, Vincenzo Cantaluppi, Silvia De Rosa, Vito Fanelli, Marco Fiorentino, Marita Marengo, Stefano Romagnoli
Renal replacement therapies (RRT) are essential to support critically ill patients with severe acute kidney injury (AKI), providing control of solutes, fluid balance and acid-base status. To maintain the patency of the extracorporeal circuit, minimizing downtime periods and blood losses due to filter clotting, an effective anticoagulation strategy is required.Regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) has been introduced in clinical practice for continuous RRT (CRRT) in the early 1990s and has had a progressively wider acceptance in parallel to the development of simplified systems and safe protocols...
March 31, 2023: J Anesth Analg Crit Care