#NephMadness 2017: Nutrition Region
Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2017 | #NephMadness or #NutritionRegion Selection Committee Member for the Nutrition Region: Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh [...]
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Test Your Knowledge: Common Symptoms in Dialysis Patients
A recent AJKD In Practice article by Scherer et al highlight common troublesome symptoms affecting dialysis patients: sleep disorders, restless legs syndrome, and uremic [...]
PD Versus HD: Do I Have a Choice?
Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) and their families fear dialysis, and the selection of a renal replacement therapy (RRT) is not easy. It is uncertain how [...]
The Peer Kidney Care Initiative: Improving Dialysis Care in the US
The 1-year mortality rate for patients on hemodialysis in the US, at close to 20%, continues to be one of the highest of any country in the world. Reasons for this are [...]
SCM15: Do Nephrologists Know How to Manage Pregnant Patients on Dialysis?
Dr. Mala Sachdeva, from Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Great Neck, NY, discusses her abstract for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical [...]
Barbiturate Poisoning and the Role of the Nephrologist
Extracorporeal treatments represent a life-saving intervention for many poisonings. In some instances such as salicylate toxicity, lithium toxicity, and poisoning with [...]
AKI: What Do the Nephrologists Think?
Acute kidney injury occurs in about 10% of hospitalized patients, but what is less known is the amount of effort AKI consumes in a nephrologist’s day? Does hospital AKI [...]
Insight into Patients’ & Caregivers’ Perspectives on Conservative Management in End of Life Care
Patients with end-stage kidney disease often experience clinical and psychological set backs that negatively impact quality of life and survival. Growing data suggest a role [...]
SCM14: Palliative Care and Dialysis
Yin and yang… peanut butter and chocolate… Astaire and Rogers… palliative care and dialysis? Today’s workshop on this topic (palliative care and [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Renal Replacement Therapy in Children
There is paucity of literature on dialysis in the pediatric population, especially on prescription and complications. Since renal replacement therapy in children requires [...]