Table 4.

Exchange of non-intentional calories during the different Continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) settings.

		Low Dose CVVH with Citrate	High Dose CVVH with Citrate	Low Dose CVVH without Citrate	p-Value
Gain due to dialysis fluid of non-intentional caloric containing molecules	Citrate (mmol/24 h)	759 ± 114	734 ± 64	0	<0.001
	Glucose (g/24 h)	6 ± 14	38 ± 45	7 ± 15	0.083
	Lactate (mmol/24 h)	16 ± 38	104 ± 124	19 ± 40	0.083
Loss in effluent of non-intentional caloric containing molecules	Citrate (mmol/24 h)	168 ± 47	281 ± 73	0	<0.001
	Glucose (g/24 h)	64 ± 28	107 ± 40	57 ± 22	0.032
	Lactate (mmol/24 h)	64 ± 34	127 ± 74	60 ± 38	0.070
Total balance of non-intentional caloric containing molecules	Citrate (mmol/24 h)	591 ± 81	453 ± 60	0	<0.001
	Glucose (g/24 h)	−59 ± 24	−69 ± 53	−50 ± 20	0.607
	Lactate (mmol/24 h)	−48 ± 16	−22 ± 84	−42 ± 14	0.567
Absolute caloric balance (kcal/day)	Citrate	736 ± 101	564 ± 75	0	<0.001
	Glucose	−222 ± 90	−262 ± 202	−187 ± 74	0.584
	Lactate	−16 ± 5	−7 ± 27	3 ± 15	0.032
Relative caloric balance compared to the true Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) (%)	Citrate	40 ± 14% (26 to 69%)	44 ± 16% (34 to 69%)	0%	<0.001
	Glucose	−12 ± 7% (−25 to −5%)	−24 ± 24% (−57 to 0%)	−13 ± 8% (−28 to −5%)	0.300
	Lactate	−1 ± 1% (−2 to 0%)	−1 ± 3% (−5 to 1%)	0 ± 1% (−1 to 3%)	0.200

Values are expressed in mean ± standard deviation. In the relative caloric balance, the minimum and maximum were also added between ( ).