Applied Peritoneal Dialysis Improving Patient Outcomes
This book offers a comprehensive guide to peritoneal dialysis (PD). Home dialysis, and more specifically PD, is growing in popularity in the US. By conservative estimates, experts suggest that 45 percent of dialysis patients in the US can be on home dialysis. However, the current penetration rate is...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- History of peritoneal dialysis
- Physiology of peritoneal dialysis
- Patient selection and training for PD
- Peritoneal dialysis solutions
- Peritoneal dialysis equipment/machines
- PD catheters
- Adequacy of peritoneal dialysis
- Techniques of peritoneal dialysis
- Peritoneal dialysis in acute kidney injury: prescribing acute peritoneal dialysis therapy
- Prescribing chronic peritoneal dialysis therapy
- Urgent Start PD
- Infectious complications related to peritoneal dialysis
- Non- infectious complications during peritoneal dialysis
- Common ESRD complication in PD, and the differences with HD
- Peritoneal dialysis in the diabetic patients
- Peritoneal dialysis in special situations
- Survival in peritoneal dialysis population
- Quality of life in PD patients
- Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis vs. automated dialysis: are there differences in the outcome?
- Peritoneal dialysis in children
- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy
- Commonly asked questions
- Howto build a successful PD program
- Peritoneal dialysis in developing countries.-