Outpatient hemodialysis unit staff members are at risk for psychological stress, including death anxiety, unresolved grieving, and burnout, due to frequent interactions with chronically ill patients who have a high mortality rate. Experiencing death anxiety and burnout may impair the ability to build interpersonal relationships, decrease job satisfaction, and impact quality of patient care. A q...

Continuous Hemofiltration in the Perioperative Management for Chronic Hemodialysis Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Shigeyuki Makino, Takane Hiraiwa, Toshihiko Kinoshita and Hideki Fujii (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Anjo Kosei Hospital, Aichi, Japan) Coronary artery bypass surgery was performed in 7 chronic hemodialysis patients. Hemodialysis and extracorporeal ultrafiltra...

Even in patients with chronic renal failure and chronic intermittent hemodialysis, continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) is the most often practiced renal replacement technique in the intensive care unit. Although patients show less hemodynamic instability during CVVH than during hemodialysis, it requires a blood flow exceeding 200 ml/min in the extracorporeal circuit necessitating the us...

In 2015, the number of cases end stage chronic kidney failure in Indonesia was 70 thousand sufferers. Based on these figures, patients undergoing hemodialysis therapy are only 4000 to 5000 with renal failure. The objective this study determine relationship between adherence and quality life Hemodialysis Unit Haji Hospital Jakarta. This research method is a quantitative cross-sectional design. s...

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...

BACKGROUND Exercise during hemodialysis treatments improves physical function, markers of cardiovascular disease and quality of life. However, exercise programs are not a part of standard therapy in the vast majority of hemodialysis clinics internationally. Hemodialysis unit-based accredited exercise physiologists may contribute to an increased intradialytic exercise uptake and improved physica...

background blood born viral infections such as hepatitis b virus (hbv) are major concerns in chronic hemodialysis (chd) patients and hemodialysis units. undetected hbs ag in the presence of viral dna, occult hbv infection (obi), is a concern in the care of chd patients and hemodialysis unit as a mode of transmission. objectives in this case-control study we compare the frequency of obi in the c...