Advances in Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology

SECTION I: Point of Care Ultrasound: Introduction and advantages of point of care ultrasound in intensive care.- Modes and equipment.- Sonography of the kidneys.- Ultrasound guidance for procedure.- Lung ultrasound and cardiac assessment for intravascular volume status.- Permanent vascular access for hemodialysis.- Focused echocardiogram.- Need for training and certification.- SECTION II: Diagnostics: Fluid overload and kidney injury score: a multidimensional real-time assessment of renal disease burden in the critically ill patient.- Blood volume monitoring on fluid removal during intermittent hemodialysis of critically ill children with acute kidney injury.- Subclinical acute kidney injury and adverse outcomes in critically ill neonates and children.- Acute kidney injury defined by fluid corrected creatinine in neonates after the cardiac surgeries.- Pediatric AKI based on the reference change value of serum creatinin-pROCK.- Cardiac surgery-associated kidney injury in children and renal oximetry.- Serum and urine FGF23 and IGFBP-7 for the prediction of acute kidney injury in critically ill children.- Renal functional reserve and furosemide stress test.- Associations of perioperative renal oximetry via near-infrared spectroscopy, and postoperative acute kidney injury in infants after congenital heart surgery.- Using age-specific biomarker ranges for diagnosis and prognosis in pediatric AKI.