Fluid management in the intensive care unit: Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis as a tool to assess hydration status and optimal fluid balance in critically ill patients

Blood Purification

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 192-199

  Basso, Flavio ^a   Berdin, Giovanna ^a   Virzì, Grazia Maria ^a,c   Mason, Giacomo ^a   Piccinni, Pasquale ^b   Day, Sonya ^a   Cruz, Dinna N ^a   Wjewodzka, Marzena ^a   Giuliani, Anna ^a   Brendolan, Alessandra ^a,c   Ronco, Claudio ^a,c  

^a International Renal Research Institute Vicenza (IRRIV)   (Italy)

^b Intensive Care Unit   (Italy)

^c SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioelectric impedance vector analysis; Continuous renal replacement therapy; Fluid overload; Hydration status; Intensive care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; FLUID BALANCE; FLUID THERAPY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE VECTOR ANALYSIS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HYDRATION; IMPEDANCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERHYDRATION; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY COMPOSITION OF BODY FLUIDS, EXCRETA AND SECRETIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REHYDRATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 84897511976     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: 14219735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000356366     Document Type: Article

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