Understanding Urea Kinetic Factors That Enhance Personalized Hemodialysis Prescription in Children

Erratum to “Optimal Hemodialysis Prescription: Do Children Need More Than a Urea Dialysis Dose?”

Optimal Hemodialysis Prescription: Do Children Need More Than a Urea Dialysis Dose?

When prescribing hemodialysis in children, the clinician should first establish an adequate regimen, before seeking to optimize the treatment (Fischbach et al. 2005). A complete dialysis dose should consist of a urea dialysis dose and a determined convective volume. Intensified and more frequent dialysis regimens should not be considered exclusively as rescue therapy. Interestingly, a recent si...

Understanding hope and factors that enhance hope in women with breast cancer.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the extent to which antecedent variables and appraisals differentiate levels of hope in women during treatment for breast cancer. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SETTING Two large midwestern urban areas. SAMPLE 73 Caucasian women between the ages of 20-73 with first-time diagnosis of breast cancer; recruited through five physician offices; within three mon...

Simplified phosphorus kinetic modeling: predicting changes in predialysis serum phosphorus concentration after altering the hemodialysis prescription.

BACKGROUND The KDIGO work group recommends increasing dialytic phosphorus removal in Stage 5D chronic kidney disease patients with persistent hyperphosphatemia; however, optimal prescriptions to enhance phosphorus removal by hemodialysis (HD) therapies have not yet been established. This study evaluated whether phosphorus kinetic modeling based on a pseudo one-compartment model could provide pr...

Is intercompartmental urea clearance during hemodialysis a perfusion term? A comparison of two pool urea kinetic models.

Analyses of intradialytic and postdialytic urea profiles call for models that consider delayed urea transfer from different parts of the body to the blood. There are two different approaches to the problem. In the classical cell membrane model it is assumed that the two compartments refer to the serial (s) arrangement of extracellular and intracellular volumes, whereas in the regional blood flo...