BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Staphylococcus aureus is an important infection in hemodialysis patients. We studied the prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and its antibiotic resistance pattern in patients receiving hemodialysis as well as in dialysis unit staff. MATERIALS AND METHODS From June to September 2012, we evaluated 74 cases including 61 pat...

BACKGROUND: Kidney replacement therapy consists of hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation. Hemodialysis (HD)is currently the most applied in therapy, implementations improve every year.OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to influence health education on patient adherence diet treatment.DESIGN: The research type used was a pre-experimental design. one group pre-test post-test desig...

background: fatigue is considered as a major problem in hemodialysis patients and can impair their quality of life. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acupressure on fatigue in hemodialysis patients. materials and methods: this is a clinical trial study in which 96 hemodialysis patients participated. patients were randomly assigned into acupressure, placebo, and c...

To see whether there was any difference in the urine urokinase concentration between acquired cystic kidney disease (ACKD) group and control (non cyst) group in end stage renal disease patients (ESRD), we evaluated fifty ESRD patients who had been maintained on chronic hemodialysis for various period. The urine urokinase concentration was higher in the ACKD group (17.5 +/- 14.7 unit/ml, range 1...

BP readings that are obtained in the dialysis unit are commonly used to make therapeutic decisions by clinicians and to predict morbidity and mortality by epidemiologists. Dialysis unit BP are also incorporated in the recent guidelines to target BP control. The magnitude of the difference, overestimation or underestimation, and agreement between dialysis unit BP and ambulatory BP (ABP) are unkn...

Background The location of the disposable material in a hemodialysis unit is essential to ensure the effectiveness of the circuits and to provide quality in nursing care. The law of the minimum effort may explain how the accessibility and distance of dressing trolleys can influence the consumption of some health care supplies [1,2]. It is necessary for health managers to look for effective stra...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Previous reports have described white particulate matter in banked blood components, but no prior public reports describe such matter in blood tubing during the course of routine in-center hemodialysis. This report describes the events, investigations, and preliminary conclusions associated with the spontaneous formation of adherent white thrombus in the venous and art...

INTRODUCTION The need for hemodialysis exerts a deep impact on the lives of children and adolescents with end-stage kidney chronic failure and their mothers, who predominantly assume the care related to treatment. The hemodialysis requires that the mother accompanies the child during sessions at least three times a week and, since it is not a healing practice, they also experience the waiting f...

BACKGROUND Benefits of exercise on dialysis (EOD) are well established, however, uptake in our local satellite haemodialysis units is low. The implications of the status quo are risks to treatment efficiency, equity and patient centredness in managing personal health risks. The current study aimed to identify and address barriers to exercise participation while on dialysis by substantiating loc...