The Oxford Handbook of Dialysis provides a patient-centred and comprehensive guide to all aspects of dialysis, covering everything from patient preparation and details of both haemo- and peritoneal dialysis, to continuous haemofiltration techniques and complications of end stage kidney disease.
This chapter includes sections on principles of peritoneal dialysis, types of peritoneal dialysis (continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and automated peritoneal dialysis), prescribing peritoneal dialysis, catheter insertion, technique failure, peritonitis, exit site infection, complications, measurement of dialysis adequacy, assessment of peritoneal membrane function, and encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis.
This chapter describes the various forms of cardiovascular disease common in patients with end-stage renal disease and risk factors. It covers management of ischaemic heart disease in patients on dialysis, acute coronary syndromes, and the management of both cardiac and renal issues, hypertension, and its control in all forms of renal replacement therapy, cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease in patients with end-stage renal disease.
This chapter describes issues related to dialysis for patients undergoing renal transplantation including the assessment of patients prior to transplant, pre-transplant management, aspects of the transplant operation itself and the management of dialysis around this, management of patients acutely after a transplant, and dialysis in patient with delayed graft function
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