It was reported that during continuous veno-venous hemodialysis (cvvhd), a patient experienced decompensation with a drop in blood pressure.
The patient was connected to a prismaflex control unit.
It was reported that the patient fluid removal rate (pfr) was set to 240 ml/h prior to starting therapy, but when attending the patient who started to decompensate, the pfr was observed to have increased to 2000 ml/h.
The operator claimed that no change had been made in the pfr.
However, review of treatment history showed that the pfr had in fact been set to 2000 ml/h.
Approximately twenty (20) minutes of the patient presenting with symptoms, the pfr was reset to zero and the patient was treated with albumin.
Review of the treatment history also identified that the treatment had been performed in dialysis mode (cvvhd) whereas hemodiafiltration (cvvhdf) was prescribed for the patient.
No additional information is available.
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