Table 3.
Prescribed treatment time delivered of each RRT treatment analyzed, and reasons for early treatment discontinuation
| All modalities | IHD (n = 98) | CRRT (n = 86) |
SLED (n = 39) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent time delivered/time prescribed | 96.1 ± 8.2 | 85.8 ± 22.9 | 89.4 ± 20.5 | ||
| Mean time delivered ± SD in hours | 3.0 ± 0.7 | 19.7 ± 6.4 | 6.8 ± 1.8 | ||
| Sessions on which < 90% of prescribed time was delivereda | 55 (24.9) | 16 (16.3) | 30 (34.9) | 11 (28.2) | |
| Reason for delivery of < 90% of prescribed treatment time |
Filter clotting | 10 | 0 | 9 (30.0) | 1 (9.1) |
| Machine-related | 12 | 1 (6.7) | 10 (33.3) | 1 (9.1) | |
| Hemodynamic instability | 3 | 1 (6.7) | 1 (3.3) | 1 (9.1) | |
| Patient-related | 15 | 1 (6.7) | 8 (26.7) | 6 (54.6) | |
| Nursing constraints | 16 | 12 (80.0) | 2 (6.7) | 2 (18.2) | |
Continuous variables are presented as mean ± SD. Categorical variables are presented as number of sessions (%).
IHD = intermittent hemodialysis
SLED = sustained low efficiency dialysis
CRRT = continuous renal replacement therapy