Continuous renal clearance techniques are a fundamental element for the treatment of many patients with acute renal failure associated with hemodynamic instability. To guarantee its proper administration and avoid complications, the work of the nursing staff of the intensive care units is key.
Despite the fact that there is more and more training on this subject aimed at nurses in ICUs, until now there has been no specific book on the subject. That is why Almudena Mateos Dávila, nurse manager of patients in the adult ICU of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and researcher of the Nursing Care Research Group of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Research Institute – IIB Sant Pau was given the task of writing the manual Conceptos fundamentales en terapias continuas de depuración renal para enfermeras (Círculo Rojo).
Throughout her professional career, the author has treated patients with many pathologies, but kidney failure has particularly caught her attention. She has specialized in this field as a student and now as a teacher. She coordinates the extracorporeal therapies working group at the Spanish Society of Intensive Nursing and Coronary Units (SEEIUC). She is a teacher of the renal subject in the Master’s Degree in Intensive Nursing at the Escola Universitaria de Infermeria (EUI) of the IIB Sant Pau, Barcelona. She is also a teacher and coordinates various courses, among which is the one on continuous depurative treatment in critical patients, which has completed its tenth edition within the Penélope program, at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Currently, she is researching citrate applied to continuous purifying therapies. This work is the subject of her doctoral thesis.
