• Gianluca Villa, Mauro Neri, Rinaldo Bellomo, Jorge Cerda, A Raffaele De Gaudio, Silvia De Rosa, Francesco Garzotto, Patrick M Honore, John Kellum, Anna Lorenzin, Didier Payen, Zaccaria Ricci, Sara Samoni, Jean-Louis Vincent, Julia Wendon, Marta Zaccaria, Claudio Ronco, and Nomenclature Standardization Initiative (NSI) Alliance.
• Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza, San Bortolo Hospital, Viale Rodolfi 37, 36100, Vicenza, Italy.
• Crit Care. 2016 Oct 10; 20 (1): 283.

AbstractThis article reports the conclusions of the second part of a consensus expert conference on the nomenclature of renal replacement therapy (RRT) techniques currently utilized to manage acute kidney injury and other organ dysfunction syndromes in critically ill patients. A multidisciplinary approach was taken to achieve harmonization of definitions, components, techniques, and operations of the extracorporeal therapies. The article describes the RRT techniques in detail with the relevant technology, procedures, and phases of treatment and key aspects of volume management/fluid balance in critically ill patients. In addition, the article describes recent developments in other extracorporeal therapies, including therapeutic plasma exchange, multiple organ support therapy, liver support, lung support, and blood purification in sepsis. This is a consensus report on nomenclature harmonization in extracorporeal blood purification therapies, such as hemofiltration, plasma exchange, multiple organ support therapies, and blood purification in sepsis.

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