Chronic inflammation is a common feature of end-stage renal disease, which carries a heightened risk of atherosclerosis and other co-morbid conditions. Dialysis treatment per se can bring additional risk factors for inflammation, such as increased risk of local graft and fistula infections, impure dialysate or bio-incompatible membranes. Our study was designed to determine whether a hemodialysi...

UNLABELLED objectives: To identify and compare hemodialysis and non-hemodialysis nurses' experiences about the placebo effect of intravenous saline injection in pain management. METHODS This descriptive study design was carried out between January 22nd - February 4th, 2012 with 202 voluntary nurses who work in hemodialysis and medical-surgical clinics. An online survey system was used for dat...

Hemodialysis is a method of kidney replacement treatment in patients with chronic failure. This carried out routinely frequency 2-3 times week. study aims to develop pattern hemodialysis rates based on unit cost calculations using the Activity-based Costing (ABC) and analyze differences INA-CBGs at X Hospital. used quantitative descriptive-analytical research design, which analysis an approach,...

introduction liver abscess developing during hospital stay in pediatric patients on dialysis for acute kidney injury has been previously unreported. impaired immunity, prolonged use of antibiotics, diabetes and malnutrition predispose to liver abscess in chronic hemodialysis patients. case presentation we reported a case of liver abscess developing in a 6-year-old boy admitted with sepsis and m...

The purpose of this study was to assess the relative health system cost of pediatric ambulatory hospital-based hemodialysis and home-based peritoneal dialysis, including both continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis when either treatment is equally appropriate. A cost analysis was performed from the viewpoint of the "study hospital" and service provid...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) 5 is defined when glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is <15.0 ml/min/1.73m2. Though nephrology service was started in Nepal as early as in 1970, we do not have data regarding CKD 5 patients till date. So this study is being undertaken to know the epidemiological profile and etiology of CKD 5 patients attending hemodialysis (HD) unit of Nepal Medical College Teaching H...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization created a Surgical Safety Checklist with a pause or "time out" to help reduce preventable adverse events and improve communication. A similar tool might improve patient safety and reduce treatment-associated morbidity in the hemodialysis unit. OBJECTIVE To develop a Hemodialysis Safety Checklist (Hemo Pause) for daily use by nurses and patients. DESI...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of frailty and the association of vitamin D levels and the frailty phenotype among non-geriatric dialysis patients. METHOD Seventy-four stable, chronic hemodialysis patients from the hemodialysis unit of the hospital were enrolled in the study. The patients' medical histories and laboratory findings were obtained from the medic...

Background: CMV is a common infection in chronic hemodialysis patients. CMV positive patients are more likely to havecarotid atherosclerosis plaques as compared with CMV negative individuals. Carotid ultrasonography (US) is one of the most used imagingtechniques for the assessment of atherosclerosis, and it is increasingly applied in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and in chronic k...