Hemodialysis Vascular Access Practice and Problems

Name: Hemodialysis Vascular Access Practice and Problems
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ISBN: 9780192629425

ISBN-10: 0192629425

ISBN-13: 9780192629425

Edition: 2000

Authors: Peter J. Conlon, Michael L. Nicholson, Steve Schwab

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This book describes the current status of vascular access for patients with end-stage renal failure who require dialysis. The book highlights controversial areas and problems and describes differences in practice in USA and Europe. Vascular Access is the Achilles heel of dialysis. In the United States and Europe in 1999 there were in access of 400,000 patients maintained on dialysis. The success of this life sustaining procedure is dependant on being able to successfully access the circulation and obtain blood flows of between two and five hundred mls per minute three times a week. In 1964 Cimino and Brescia described what remains today the premier form of vascular access. Not long after…

Book details

List price: $370.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/6/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Acute Vascular Access



Pathophysiology of Vascular Access Failure



Long-term outcome of different forms of vascular access



Cuffed catheter access



Dialysis access infection



Surgical considerations in vascular access



Upper arm AV fistula



Vascular Access for the 'difficult' patient



Strategies for prospective detection of graft dysfuction



Percutaneous treatment of access dysfunction



Options for restoration of thrombosed vascular access:Thrombolysis



Options for restoration of thrombosed vascular access: Surgery



Dialysis outcomes quality initiative (DOQI)Polo: Vascular Access in children