How I prescribe continuous renal replacement therapy

Emily J See^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, 145 Studley Road, Heidelberg , VIC, Australia.
² Department of Nephrology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia.
³ Centre for Integrated Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, 145 Studley Road, Heidelberg , VIC, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.
⁵ Centre for Integrated Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.
⁶ Department of Intensive Care, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.
⁷ Data Analytics Research and Evaluation, The University of Melbourne and Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.

Editorial

Emily J See et al. Crit Care. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 2;25(1):1.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03448-7.

Emily J See^{1

2

3}, Rinaldo Bellomo^{4

5

6

7}

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, 145 Studley Road, Heidelberg , VIC, Australia.
² Department of Nephrology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia.
³ Centre for Integrated Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, 145 Studley Road, Heidelberg , VIC, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.
⁵ Centre for Integrated Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.
⁶ Department of Intensive Care, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.
⁷ Data Analytics Research and Evaluation, The University of Melbourne and Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare they have no competing interests relevant to this editorial.

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