tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Atlas of hemofiltration: a practical guide for beginners"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Atlas of hemofiltration: a practical guide for beginners. | Critical Care June 2002 Vol 6 No 3 Tasker Book report Atlas of hemofiltration a practical guide for beginners Daniel De Backer Assistant Professor Department of Intensive Care Erasme University Hospital Free University of Brussels Brussels Belgium Correspondence Dr Daniel De Backer ddebacke@ Published online 30 April 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 276 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Keywords anticoagulation drug elimination vascular access Rinaldo Bellomo Ian Baldwin Claudio Ronco Thomas Golper Atlas of Hemofiltration. London Edinburgh New York etc. . Saunders 2002. 100 pp. ISBN 0-7020-2504-6 Pbk Continuous haemofiltration is widely used in critically ill patients and the Atlas of Hemofiltration is designed to facilitate its routine use in clinical practice. Divided into three parts the book provides a swift but adequate and comprehensive introduction into the principles and techniques devices and practical aspects of haemofiltration. The first part explains the principles of blood purification and introduces the reader to the complex nomenclature. It also describes the principles of solute transport allowing one to understand what exactly is being removed to what degree and by means of which mechanism. In the second richly illustrated part the authors present nine haemofiltration devices. Although this section will soon be outdated because of the fast moving nature of the discipline these brief reports form a vital aspect of the book. A few sentences are provided for each device regarding its performance and main characteristics as is a list of major advantages and disadvantages. Hence this part of the book is very useful for practitioners who wish to compare several devices in theory before actually testing them in their own units. It should be noted that some of the devices are not presented by the authors themselves but rather by contributors who are affiliated with the respective manufacturers potential conflicts of .