Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2007
Abstract
This paper reviews the estimation of dry weight as target and the adequate ultrafiltration strategy in order to provide if possible, symptom free dialysis. The article reviews the continuous blood volume monitoring procedures used to achieve this.
The existing approaches are divided in three groups - methods defining certain alert value of relative blood volume (RBV) reduction, methods working with RBV response to constant UF rate, methods evaluating dynamics of RBV response to UF pulse or chain of UF pulses. At present all discussed methods have been evaluated on small patient cohorts.