Continuous renal replacement therapy is a form of dialysis administered continuously, typically twenty-four hours a day, rather than in the intermittent sessions used for standard hemodialysis, performed with a mechanical blood pump at a slow, steady flow rate. It is used chiefly in critically ill patients in intensive care whose acute kidney injury or unstable blood pressure makes them poorly suited to the faster fluid and solute shifts of intermittent hemodialysis. Nephrologist Peter Kramer introduced the underlying technique, continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration, in 1977, and it was subsequently refined into several venovenous variants that use a pump rather than relying on the patient's own arterial blood pressure, becoming a standard tool of modern intensive care.
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Hemofiltration, also haemofiltration, is a renal replacement therapy used in the intensive care setting.
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Continuous hemofiltration (CHF) was first described in a 1977 paper by Kramer et al. as a treatment for fluid overload.
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