Bicarbonate-based haemofiltration in the management of acute renal failure with lactic acidosis.

Summary Continuous haemofiltration with lactate-based while being treated with bicarbonate-based haemofiltration. Fifty-seven patients (28.5%) survived. replacement fluid is widely used for the treatment of acute renal failure (ARF). In the presence of lactic Significant differences at presentation in the group who survived, compared with those who died, were