Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy for "40 Years of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy"

The provision of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) to pediatric patients presents numerous clinical and technical challenges that have been addressed over the past 40 years. Children provide an informative population for acute kidney injury and CRRT study, as pediatric subspecialists practice with a preventive perspective and children often do not have the multiple severe chronic comorbidities that confound adult studies. In addition, the relatively small number of patients treated at any one pediatric center has engendered successful multicenter collaboration to advance the clinical and technical studies of CRRT provision. This chapter examines pediatric-specific issues and contributions to the CRRT field. (c) 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel