Protocolized Regional Citrate Anticoagulation during Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: A Single Center Experience.

Background: Regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) has emerged as a treatment modality that reduces bleeding risk and filter clotting. With initial experience of using RCA with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), we have formulated a working protocol based on published literature.

Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the protocol for routine use of RCA during CRRT requiring anticoagulation and evaluation of filter life.

Comparison between Effect of Indirect Calorimetry vs Weight-based Equation (25 kcal/kg/day)-guided Nutrition on Quadriceps Muscle Thickness as Assessed by Bedside Ultrasonography in Medical Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Aim And Background: Sarcopenia is a substantial contributor to intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired weakness and is associated with significant short- and long-term outcomes. It can, however, be mitigated by providing appropriate nutrition. Indirect calorimetry (IC) is believed to be the gold standard in determining caloric targets in the dynamic environment of critical illness.

Carotid Blood Flow as a Surrogate for Pulse Contour Analysis in Assessment of Fluid Responsiveness: A Prospective, Observational, Single-Centre Study (Contour Study).

Background and objectives The quest for an accurate and reliable non-invasive method of assessing cardiac output in critically ill patients is still ongoing. Carotid artery Doppler is a promising non-invasive, reproducible, and feasible bedside monitor. So we compared the change in cardiac output derived from arterial pressure waveforms (pulse contour analysis) with that from carotid artery Doppler-derived measurements, in post-major elective abdominal surgery patients.