An experience of renal replacement therapy in a combined neonatal and paediatric intensive care unit of Hong Kong |
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Authors: | Sik-Nin Wong Nelson N S Tsoi Chap-Yung Yeung |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Paediatrics, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong |
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Abstract: | Intensive care services are expensive. The experience of developing a combined paediatric and neonatal intensive care unit (ICU) in a regional hospital is reported with reference to the provision of renal support for the critically ill patients. The combined unit is staffed by a team of paediatric intensivists, each of whom has special interest in a subspecialty, including cardiology, respiratory medicine, nephrology and neonatology. In the past 7 years, renal replacement therapy (peritoneal dialysis and haemofiltration) was provided to 40 patients, with comparable mortality and complication rates to other reports. This arrangement has been feasible and might be more efficient than running separate paediatric and neonatal ICUs or combining the paediatric ICU with the adult ICU. |
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Keywords: | Intensive care unit Neonate Acute renal failure Peritoneal dialysis Continuous arteriovenous haemofiltration |
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