How to long patient dialesis

E more than 450 000 individuals in the united states who requ

ire renal replacement therapy or dialysis these individuals continue to lead full and productive lives I'm dr john kevin tucker a kidney specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and vice president for education at mass general brigham and this is understanding dialysis options peritoneal dialysis when patients develop chronic kidney disease Why Do I Need Dialysis? and the kidney function declines to a level such the kidneys are no longer able to support life that is when the patient will develop some of the signs and symptoms of kidney failure many of which are non-specific they may include things like nausea loss of appetite fatigue mental cloudiness itching no one sign or symptom occurs in all patients but it's a constellation of findings that suggest that the patient needs to begin dialysis because of these findings that are suggestive of kidney failure kidney transplantation is the most optimal form of renal replacement but there aren't enough kidneys to go around so most patients rely at least in the short term on one of the means of dialysis there are two major forms of dialysis hemodialysis which involves the blood and peritoneal dialysis which does not involve blood most patients can do either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis the outcomes are very similar it's possible for patients to move from one modality of dialysis to another the choice most often depends upon personal choice lifestyle life situation changing employment change in school status that necessitates a change from one modality Treatment to another peritoneal dialysis is a form of therapy that is designed for the patient to do at home on his or her schedule in contrast to in-center hemodialysis which the patient must come into the clinic usually three times a week for the dialysis treatment most patients can do either one and it's often driven by. personal choice the reason it's called Why Is It Called Peritoneal Dialysis peritoneal dialysis is that it uses the peritoneum which is the lining around all of the organs in the abdomen as a filter this lining is filled with capillaries or small blood vessels and the poisons that are normally filtered by the kidneys can be removed across that filter by placing a solution into the abdomen when the patient drains that solution out it contains the poisons that would normally have been filtered by the kidneys there are two forms of peritoneal dialysis there's continuous ambulatory Forms of Peritoneal Dialysis Peritoneal dialysis in which the patient does manual exchanges but there's also continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis sometimes also referred to as automated peritoneal dialysis in caps, the patient does over a day usually three or four what we call manual exchanges and what that means is that manually using his or her hand hangs a bag of the solution onto an iv pole and lets the solution flow into the catheter that goes into the abdomen once that solution has flown into the abdomen

the catheter is capped off and the patient may go about his or her activities of daily living at the end of four or five or sometimes six-hour period usually then the patient will drain that fluid out when that fluid is drained out the patient will put a new fresh solution into the abdomen the whole process of the manual exchange from start to finish will take probably about an hour that means gathering supplies making sure that one has a sterile clean work area doing the drain of the old solution and the installation of the fresh solution for patients who prefer to have their Continuous Cycling Peritoneal Dialysis day free continuous cycling peripheral dialysis is often the preferred option that uses a small machine that sits on a bedside table and throughout an eight or nine-hour period the machine will do several cycles or exchanges in much the same way that a manual exchange takes place with the fluid this time usually will drain by a long stretch of the tubing into the patient's toilet this setup will probably take the patients about half an hour usually before bedtime because that's when most patients use the cycler machine the patient then will hook himself up to the machine and cycle overnight typically for eight to nine hours and the disconnect process will take probably only about 15 minutes or so in the morning let's dispel some of the myths about Myths peritoneal dialysis the first one is that age is a contraindication to doing home peritoneal dialysis age is not a contraindication to doing home peritoneal dialysis many of my older patients prefer to do home peritoneal dialysis it's very difficult for my elderly patients to get out of their home to come into a clinic three times per week for in-central hemodialysis so age itself is not a contraindication as long as the patient can be educated about how to do peritoneal dialysis and can perform the exchanges him or herself the second myth is that education is required to be able to do home perineal dialysis we've been able to train patients to do home periodontal dialysis from many different educational levels and backgrounds we've been able to train patients who had very low English literacy we've been able to train patients who did not speak English at all the home dialysis patient is supported by a whole team that includes the kidney doctor the dialysis nurse a social worker and a dietitian the whole multi-disciplinary team will support the patient in understanding all of the aspects of dialysis care to perform peritoneal dialysis Preparing For Peritoneal Dialysis the patient must have surgically implanted a catheter that goes into the abdomen after the catheter has healed the patient will begin training with a very experienced peritoneal dialysis nurse who's trained to educate patients on how to do this form of therapy the training process will generally take one to two weeks depending upon how many sessions the patient can come into the clinic for a given week once the patient has completed the training process the dialysis clinic will order the patient's supplies which are delivered to his or her home and then the patient is sent home to do peritoneal dialysis before we discharge the patient from the clinic to do dialysis at home a home visit is required by law

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