Ian J Stewart,Keith McCrea,Lakhmir Chawla et al.
Ian J Stewart et al.
Sepsis is caused by the host response to an infectious organism. It is common among hospitalized patients and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The current standard of care for sepsis is predominantly supportive, with ...
Rinaldo Bellomo,Matteo Marcello,Claudio Ronco
Rinaldo Bellomo
After initial tentative steps with bioincompatible sorbents, hemoadsorption is making a comeback. This has been fueled by improved coating technology and improved sorbent technology. Both have markedly increased the safety, biocompatibility...
Fiorenza Ferrari,Miriam Manera,Luigi DAuria et al.
Fiorenza Ferrari et al.
Hemoperfusion (HP) is an extracorporeal blood purification therapy that is used to remove poisons or drugs from the body. This chapter provides a brief overview of the technical aspects and the potential indications and limitations of HP, w...
Hemoperfusion in Burns [0.03%]
烧伤的血液灌注疗法
Paul Abraham,Céline Monard,Antoine Lamblin et al.
Paul Abraham et al.
Patients with severe thermal injury require urgent specialized care in burn units. These units assure good coordination of a bundle of care including fluid resuscitation, nutritional support, respiratory care, surgical care and wound care, ...
Silvia De Rosa,Salvatore Lucio Cutuli,Anna Lorenzin et al.
Silvia De Rosa et al.
Sepsis is a life-threatening syndrome initiated by a dysregulated host response to infection. Maladaptive inflammatory burst damages host tissues and causes organ dysfunction, the burden of which has been demonstrated as the paramount predi...
The Use of Adsorption in Extracorporeal Liver Support: The Double Plasma Molecular Adsorption System (DPMAS) [0.03%]
吸附在体外肝脏支持中的应用:双重血浆分子吸附系统(DPMAS)
Guillermo J Rosa-Diez,Olivier Joannes-Boyau
Guillermo J Rosa-Diez
Liver failure in the intensive care unit (ICU), whether acute or acute-on-chronic, remains a serious condition with reduced functions, various metabolite and toxin accumulation in the systemic circulation, and a high mortality rate. While t...
Tanat Lertussavavivat,Nattachai Srisawat
Tanat Lertussavavivat
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the global emergency outbreak disease that devastatingly affected world public health and the economy. The pathogenesis of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans has...
Pier Paolo Duchini,Gabriella Bottari,Akash Deep et al.
Pier Paolo Duchini et al.
Application of extracorporeal blood purification in children is increasing with the improvement of technology and the broadening of indications in critically ill patients. Furthermore, novel devices are being made available with a miniaturi...
Sanjay Chaudhary,Kianoush B Kashani
Sanjay Chaudhary
With the growing prevalence of acute liver failure or acute-on-chronic liver failure, on the one hand, and the limited supply of liver organs for transplantation, on the other hand, it is critical to the design, validate, and implement devi...
Zsolt Molnár,Jakub Szrama,Katarzyna Sierakowska
Zsolt Molnár
Inflammation plays a key role in the pathophysiology of organ dysfunction in the critically ill patients and is triggered by an overwhelming host response resulting in the overproduction of various cytokines. Regaining immune homeostasis ov...