- Growth of peritoneal dialysis post Covid-19
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Edwina Brown
2021 ; 2021(1):
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- 춘계학술대회 초록집
The Covid-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to reset the advantages of dialysis at home. Rates of Covid infection and death are significantly higher for patients on in-centre haemodialysis than for patients dialysing at home. This lecture explores the strategies needed to increase PD utilization post-Covid:
Patient education
PD education for kidney care team
Access to non-surgical percutaneous PD catheter insertion Pathways for urgent PD start
Access to assisted PD
Increased use of Telemedicine Reevaluation of existing PD quality metrics