Critical care resources

There are 5 paediatric intensive care units across 4 centres within the EMEESY network - Sheffield Children's Hospital, Nottingham Children's Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital and two paediatric intensive care units in Leicester Royal Infirmary - one which provides general intensive care and a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit with children's cardiac services.

All 4 of these centres can provide continuous kidney replacement therapies.

Nikki Justice is the Renal Critical Care Educator for EMEESY. She provides specialist nursing support and education for staff caring for children requiring renal replacement therapy within the regional PICUs. This includes Nottingham, Sheffield and Leicester Royal Infirmary.

She also provides support to Addenbrooke's with education provision and provides over the phone support when needed.

Here are the guidelines for continuous kidney replacement therapy for the 4 centres across the EMEESY region.

Here is a selection of videos for using the Prismaflex and PrisMax machines, including set up, connecting a patient, recirculation and disconnection.

There is an e-learning resource on CVVH available here.

Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is another form of extra-corporeal therapy that can be undertaken using the Prismaflex machine and is currently provided at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Critical care resources

Renal critical care educator

Guidelines

Educational videos

CRRT training

Plasma exchange