Frank Tenney MD       Medical Director
Children's Hospital of Greenville Hospital System
205 Enterprise Blvd, Suite 200
Greenville, SC 29615
Pediatric Nephrology

Pediatric Update for the Upstate 2002


Part One:

Pediatric Acute Renal Failure

Part Two:

Renal Replacement Therapy

Pediatric Acute Renal Failure and Renal Replacement Therapy

Representative cases of children with acute renal failure (ARF) will be discussed. The content of the case presentations will concern causes and mechanisms of ARF, complications of ARF and their management, and conservative and dialytic management of ARF.

Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) will be introduced, and issues involving the modalities of Peritoneal Dialysis, Hemodialysis, and Continual Renal Replacement Therapy will be discussed.