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Objective: To determine the impact of different hemofiltration (HF) replacement fluids on the acid-base status and cardiovascular hemodynamics in patients with acute renal failure (ARF) and continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH).¶Design: Prospective, cohort study.¶Setting: Intensive Care Unit of the Heinrich Heine University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany.¶Subject and methods: One hundred and thirty-two critically ill patients with acute renal failure and continuous veno-venous HF were studied. Fifty-two patients were subjected to lactate-based (group 1), and 32 to acetate-based hemofiltration (group 2)while 48 (group 3) were treated with bicarbonate-based buffer hemofiltration fluid. Fifty-seven had a septic, and 75 a cardiovascular, origin of the ARF. Creatinine, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum bicarbonate, arterial pH, lactate and Apache II scores were noted daily.¶Main results: The mean CVVH duration was 9.8 ± 8.1 days, mortality was 65 %. No difference was present between the groups under investigation with regard to the main clinical parameters. Lactate- and bicarbonate-based hemofiltration led to significantly higher serum bicarbonate and arterial pH values as compared to the acetate-based hemofiltration. Serum bicarbonate values at 48 h after the initiation of CVVH treatment were 25.7 ± 3.8 mmol/l (p < 0.001) in group 1, 20.6 ± 3.1 mmol/l in group 2 and 23.3 ± 3.9 mmol/l (p < 0.001) in group 3. While a lack of increase in serum bicarbonate and arterial pH was correlated to poor prognosis in lactate- and bicarbonate-based hemofiltration, no such observation was made in acetate-based hemofiltration. Cardiovascular hemodynamics were superior in patients treated with lactate- and bicarbonate-based buffer solution as compared to those treated with acetate-based buffer solution.¶Conclusions: The degree of correction of acidosis during hemofiltration was determined by patient outcome in patients treated with lactate- and bicarbonate-based buffer solutions, but not in patients receiving acetate-buffered solution. Bicarbonate and lactate-based buffer solutions were found to be superior to acetate-based replacement fluid.
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Received: 19 November 1998/Accepted: 17 August 1999
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Heering, P., Ivens, K., Thümer, O. et al. The use of different buffers during continuous hemofiltration in critically ill patients with acute renal failure. Intensive Care Med 25, 1244–1251 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340051052
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340051052