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Extracorporeal Removal of Poisons and Toxins

Joshua David King, Moritz H. Kern and Bernard G. Jaar
CJASN September 2019, 14 (9) 1408-1415; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.02560319
Joshua David King
Division of Nephrology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland;Maryland Poison Center, Baltimore, Maryland;
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Moritz H. Kern
Department of Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany;DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Heidelberg/Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;
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Bernard G. Jaar
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland;Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; andNephrology Center of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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Extracorporeal therapies have been used to remove toxins from the body for over 50 years and have a greater role than ever before in the treatment of poisonings. Improvements in technology have resulted in increased efficacy of removing drugs and other toxins with hemodialysis, and newer extracorporeal therapy modalities have expanded the role of extracorporeal supportive care of poisoned patients. However, despite these changes, for at least the past three decades the most frequently dialyzed poisons remain salicylates, toxic alcohols, and lithium; in addition, the extracorporeal treatment of choice for therapeutic removal of nearly all poisonings remains intermittent hemodialysis. For the clinician, consideration of extracorporeal therapy in the treatment of a poisoning depends upon the characteristics of toxins amenable to extracorporeal removal (e.g., molecular mass, volume of distribution, protein binding), choice of extracorporeal treatment modality for a given poisoning, and when the benefit of the procedure justifies additive risk. Given the relative rarity of poisonings treated with extracorporeal therapies, the level of evidence for extracorporeal treatment of poisoning is not robust; however, extracorporeal treatment of a number of individual toxins have been systematically reviewed within the current decade by the Extracorporeal Treatment in Poisoning workgroup, which has published treatment recommendations with an improved evidence base. Some of these recommendations are discussed, as well as management of a small number of relevant poisonings where extracorporeal therapy use may be considered.

  • toxicology; extracorporeal therapies; hemodialysis; poisoning; intoxication; acidosis; therapeutic plasma exchange; toxic alcohols; lithium; salicylates; Poisons; Toxins, Biological; hemoperfusion
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Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: 14 (9)
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September 06, 2019
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Joshua David King, Moritz H. Kern, Bernard G. Jaar
CJASN Sep 2019, 14 (9) 1408-1415; DOI: 10.2215/CJN.02560319

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    • Introduction
    • Principles of Toxin Removal by Extracorporeal Therapies
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    • Methanol
    • Ethylene Glycol
    • Other Toxic Alcohols
    • Salicylates
    • Acetaminophen (Paracetamol)
    • Lithium
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  • toxicology; extracorporeal therapies; hemodialysis; poisoning; intoxication; acidosis; therapeutic plasma exchange; toxic alcohols; lithium; salicylates; Poisons; Toxins, Biological; hemoperfusion

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