When giving albumin challenge, for acute kidney injury with suspected hepatorenal syndrome, do you administer a single dose daily or split the dose of albumin?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
The main concern about albumin infusions are the potential risk for pulmonary edema (China et al., PMID 33657293). Therefore, I prefer to have albumin administered in divided doses of 25 grams at a time with a max daily dose of up to 100 grams, and I tend to stop IV albumin if the serum albumin leve...