In advanced clinical practice, up to 4/5th of the hospitalized patients require intravenous therapy at some point during their hospital stay. This intravenous route can involve administering ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A program that provided specific processes to support the initiation of PD in urgent and unplanned situations ...

Patients with end-stage renal disease who opt for peritoneal dialysis experience no greater risk of catheter infection than those who undergo hemodialysis, a new study has found. Patients with ...

A study of risk factors associated with peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter survival found that a non-infectious catheter-related problem was the only independent variable significantly associated with ...

ED Highly Prevalent in Men with Failed Hypospadias Repair Follow-up procedures are significantly more likely to be required if PD catheters are inserted by interventionalists instead of general or ...

As blood in the peritoneal capillaries comes into contact with dialysate in the peritoneal cavity, solutes in the blood diffuse into the dialysate. The osmotic gradient created by glucose in the ...

Peritoneal dialysis is the method of choice in chronic dialysis treatment in children worldwide. The benefits of this method are multiple, including simplicity, low costs, better blood pressure ...

Conducted over 5 years, from 2008 to 2013, this RCT tried to determine the optimal time for peritoneal dialysis (PD) after catheter insertion in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease. The ideal ...