Advances in Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology, 1st ed. 2021
Point of Care Ultrasound and Diagnostics

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The book covers advances in critical care pediatric nephrology, including care of sick children with acute kidney injury. The book contains detailed guidance on point of care ultrasound in children with acute kidney injury and use of biomarkers in critically sick children.

This is an annual theme-based book with the current theme of 'point of care ultrasound in critical care pediatric nephrology and newer diagnostics in acute kidney injury'. This is the first book of the set of books to be published annually with a different theme related to critical care pediatric nephrology each year with the collaboration of the Pediatric Continous Renal Replacement Therapy (PCRRT) Foundation and International Collaboration of Nephrologists & Intensivists for Critical Care in Children (ICONIC). This annual updates book contains 20 chapters, written and edited by leading experts in pediatric intensive care, pediatric nephrology and nephrologists specializing in point of care ultrasound fromacross the globe. It includes top studies in the last few years in critical care pediatric nephrology on point of care ultrasound and diagnostics. Chapters cover scientifically updated information by international experts on each topic.

It offers assistance to pediatricians, pediatric nephrologists, pediatric intensivists and residents.



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.


Dr Sidharth Kumar Sethi is currently consultant, pediatric nephrology and renal transplant medicine, Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, India. He was trained as a fellow (International Pediatric Nephrology Association Fellowship) and senior resident in pediatric nephrology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India and Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Immunology, Cedars Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, California. He has been a faculty at multiple meetings on pediatric acute kidney injury and pediatric dialysis nationally and internationally. His main areas of interests are acute kidney injury, dialysis and pediatric renal transplantation. He has been actively involved in the care of children with all kinds of complex renal disorders, including acute kidney injury, dialysis, nephrotic syndrome, tubular disorders, urinary tract infections, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and renal transplantation. He has been apart of 8-member writing committee for the Indian guidelines of Steroid Sensitive Nephrotic Syndrome and expert committee involved in the formulation of guidelines of pediatric renal disorders including Steroid Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome and urinary tract infections. He has many indexed publications in pediatric nephrology and chapters in reputed nephrology textbooks. He is currently the Editor of Journal of Clinical Pediatric Nephrology. He was awarded in 2014 by Case Western Reserve University, for his outstanding contributions to the field.

Dr. Rupesh Raina is currently a combined adult and pediatric nephrologist and director of medical research and scholarly activity and associate program director of internal medicine at Akron General Medical Center at Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Akron Children’s Hospital, USA. He is also a faculty and research staff at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA. Dr. Raina is a council member for
Annual book of Pediatric Continous Renal Replacement Therapy (PCRRT) Foundation and International Collaboration of Nephrologists & Intensivists for Critical Care in Children (ICONIC) Covers advances in critical care pediatric nephrology Covers latest evidence based approach on critical care pediatric nephrology and acute dialysis in children Helps in management of children with renal failure in intensive care units