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These guidelines have been developed under the auspices of the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis to help standardize practice, based on the available evidence, and enable those practicing PD for AKI to achieve optimal results. It is hoped that this will facilitate increased access to renal replacement therapy (RRT) in developing countries, and by standardizing practice, act as a platform for future research. The committee has been carefully selected to include adult and pediatric nephrologists as well as intensive care specialists from around the world with a bias towards including practitioners from those countries where PD for AKI is practiced as a routine. Each section was written by at least two authors who performed a review of the literature in that area. The section was reviewed by the co-chairs (BC, FF) and finally the recommendations and their grading were made by consensus. The final …