Nomenclature for continuous renal replacement therapies

Continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRTs) have evolved over the last decade, but there is no standard terminology for the defferent methods in use, At an International Conference on CRRT, held in San Diego, CA, November 9-10, 1995, an international panel of experts developed a proposed nomenclature for these therapies, The nomenclature was developed to define common terms and to use a standardized language when papers in the field of CRRT are reviewed and published, This article describes the definition for each technique, It is hoped that these definitions will be used as a framework for subsequent descriptions of new techniques in the literature. (C) 1996 by the National Kidney Foundation, Inc.