BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Observational evidence has suggested that RRT modality may affect recovery after AKI. It is unclear whether initial choice of intermittent hemodialysis or continuous RRT affects renal recovery, survival, or development of ESRD in critically ill patients when modality choice is made primarily on hemodynamics. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS We performed ...

Background: For patients undergoing hemodialysis, continuing in labor is very challenging and many patients have difficulty in current and/or previous workplaces. The objective of the present study is to clarify the determinants of being employed in hemodialysis patients by use of the mixed methods approach. Methods: One hundred and forty-nine patients undergoing hemodialysis were interviewed b...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization in our institution. METHODS A 5-day period prevalence study of all adult and pediatric patients. Excluded areas were the adult intensive care unit (screened on admission and weekly thereafter), the outpatient hemodialysis population (screened monthly), and newborns. Our facility is a refer...

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis services in Vietnam are being decentralised outside of tertiary hospitals. To identify the challenges to infection control standards for the prevention of bloodborne infections including hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) we tested the magnitude of HBV and HCV infections in the largest unit in Ho Chi Minh City servicing patients with end stage renal dise...

Objective: To elicit quality of life chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with routine hemodialysis receiving erythropoietin from clinical and humanistic outcome, to analysis characteristic factors Hb, fatique the (QOL) CKD hemodialysis, explore change in QOL over one month for managed hospitals. Methods: A prospective study was conducted among adult Haji Adam Malik Hospital Medan. measured us...

conclusions methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus is an increasingly common cause of nosocomial infections. our results are in agreement with those of other studies reporting that a few specialized clones are responsible for most cases of mrsa nasal carriage. in this study, mrsa strains isolated from different wards of hospital were closely related when analyzed by coagulase gene typing. ...

dialysis adequacy with high flux membrane in hemodialysis patients at shahid beheshti hospital, hamedan     oshvandi kh [1] , kavyannejad r [2] , borzuo sr [3] *, gholyaf m [4] , salavati m [5]     received: 4 feb , 2012 accepted: 14 jun , 2012     abstract   background & aims : hemodialysis is the most common treatment for end stage renal disease (esrd). inadequate dialysis is a risk factor fo...

Background: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis often suffer from malnutrition. The primary objective of the study was to measure level serum prealbumin, assess correlation prealbumin with modified subjective global assessment score and determine a cut-off value for that can estimate nutritional status population highest accuracy, among ESRD under hemodia...