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What is your approach to dosing sodium thiosulfate for a patient with ESKD who is receiving CRRT?

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What is your approach to dosing sodium thiosulfate for a patient with ESKD who is receiving CRRT?

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Nephrology · Rush Medical College
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It seems a bit oxymoronic, mutually exclusive, contradictory, - not sure if any of those are the right words. But if a patient needs CRRT, I dont think STS is something I am worrying about. It is not something that works right away, not even close. It can be missed for a while until patient is back ...

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Nephrology · Harvard Medical School
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I refer to simulation data published in CJASN- Singh et al., PMID 21441129. For a patient receiving CRRT, sodium thiosulfate infusions are administered daily and dose is decided based on CRRT prescription. Table 2 in the article above provides suggested doses for different dialysis prescriptions. We...

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