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Trial reportIntensive care medicine2013

Early acid-base and blood pressure effects of continuous renal replacement therapy intensity in patients with metabolic acidosis.

Rinaldo Bellomo, Miklos Lipcsey, Paolo Calzavacca, Michael Haase, Anjia Haase-Fielitz, Elisa Licari, Augustine Tee, Louise Cole, Alan Cass, Simon Finfer and 8 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Intensive care medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00221013 (Multicentre, Unblinded, Open Label, Randomised, Controlled Trial to Assess the Effect of Augmented Vs. Normal Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT00221013 phase4completednot on this map

Multicentre, Unblinded, Open Label, Randomised, Controlled Trial to Assess the Effect of Augmented Vs. Normal Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) on 90-Day All-Cause Mortality of Intensive Care Unit Patients With Severe Acute Renal Failure (ARF).

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe George InstituteRan2005 to 2009Enrolled1,508ConditionsAcute Renal FailureArms"augmented" CRRT regimen
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Timing of kidney replacement therapy initiation for acute kidney injury.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
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  3. Timing of renal replacement therapy initiation for acute kidney injury.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  4. Intensity of continuous renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
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  8. Professor Rinaldo Bellomo: Founder, architect, and choreographer of critical care nephrology.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2025
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  10. Ensuring Sustainability of Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy in the Face of Extraordinary Demand: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rinaldo BellomoANZICS CTG, Level 3, 10 Ievers St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au
Miklos Lipcsey
Paolo Calzavacca
Michael Haase
Anjia Haase-Fielitz
Elisa Licari
Augustine Tee
Louise Cole
Alan Cass
Simon Finfer
Martin Gallagher
Joanne Lee
Serigne Lo
Colin McArthur
Shay McGuinness
John Myburgh
Carlos Scheinkestel
RENAL Study Investigators and ANZICS Clinical Trials Group
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeIn acute kidney injury patients, metabolic acidosis is common. Its severity, duration, and associated changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and vasopressor therapy may be affected by the intensity of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). We aimed to compare key aspects of acidosis and MAP and vasopressor therapy in patients treated with two different CRRT intensities.

methodsWe studied a nested cohort of 115 patients from two tertiary intensive care units (ICUs) within a large multicenter randomized controlled trial treated with lower intensity (LI) or higher intensity (HI) CRRT.

resultsLevels of metabolic acidosis at randomization were similar [base excess (BE) of -8 ± 8 vs. -8 ± 7 mEq/l; p = 0.76]. Speed of BE correction did not differ between the two groups. However, the HI group had a greater increase in MAP from baseline to 24 h (7 ± 3 vs. 0 ± 3 mmHg; p < 0.01) and a greater decrease in norepinephrine dose (from 12.5 to 3.5 vs. 5 to 2.5 μg/min; p < 0.05). The correlation (r) coefficients between absolute change in MAP and norepinephrine (NE) dose versus change in BE were 0.05 and -0.37, respectively.

conclusionsOverall, LI and HI CRRT have similar acid-base effects in patients with acidosis. However, HI was associated with greater improvements in MAP and vasopressor requirements (clinical trial no. NCT00221013).

Indexed as

Blood PressureAcid-Base ImbalanceAcidosisAcute Kidney InjuryAgedFemaleHumansMaleProspective StudiesRenal Replacement Therapy

Identifiers

PMID23306586
OpenAlexW1966917435

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