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A comprehensive reference-text, providing dialysis practitioners, trainees, and students with current information about the most pressing issues confronting the practice of dialysis today. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first is devoted to technical and procedural considerations in dialytic therapy, and the second provides an approach to many of the common clinical disturbances present in dialysis patients. The emphasis throughout is on providing practical information and a reasonable approach to the clinical problems dialysis practice routinely presents. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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This book is an evidence-based review of the practical challenges of dealing with patients receiving dialysis. The first section covers technical and procedural considerations such as choosing the hemodialysis membrane and choosing the best dialysis option. The second section covers clinical considerations such as infection and the treatment of specific renal disease complications. The book includes numerous illustrations and tables and drug charts for dialysis patients.This edition's current outcomes chapter has been expanded to include patient depression and improving quality of care. New chapters cover dialysis in the ICU, valvular heart disease, and pre-emptive renal transplantation.
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