The responsibilities of the Pediatric Nephrologist in the Nephrologist and other involved specialists is vital to critical care setting are multifaceted. Management of optimize the outcome for each individual child. acute renal failure with and without renal replacement In this first edition of the book, we have included therapy, fluid and electrolyte abnormalities and hyper- chapters focused on general topics in pediatric nephr- tensive emergencies are only some of the major clinical ogy that are most germane to the care of the critically circumstances where the renal specialist is involved...