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In center hemo must be done - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3x a week for about 4 hours
Cons of in center HD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Most limitation on Diet, fluid than
other modalities
Requires the most medication
Most symptoms
,Patients who run 4 hour tx - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Are 30% less likely to die than
pts who run shorter times
Each 30 mins extra of tx increase life by 7%
Patients are 50% more likely to die after - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔2 day no
treatment weekend, the last 12 hours of the 2 days the risk of death triples
diastolic blood pressure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When the heart is at rest.
Benefits of nocturnal in center - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔You get 2x as many txs as
standard because it is longer and more gentle with fluid removal
Rarely cramp
Easy on heart
Fewer limitations on food and drink
Free days
72% better survival rate than standard in center
You check blood pressure with - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Stethoscope and
sphygmomanometer
,Nocturnal in center hemo must be done - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3x a weeks about
8 hours per tx
If BP site is below the heart.... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The reading will be to high
Benefits of nocturnal home hemo - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Better protein level
Don't need binders
No fluid limits
Fewer symptoms
Less heart damage
Live as long as people who get a deceased kidney transplant
If BP site is above the heart.... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The reading will be to low
Home hemo must be done - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3x a week 4-6 hours per tx
Benefits of PD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Can do alone at home or work
Only need 1-2weeks of training
Allows for a more normal diet
Allows pt to feel more normal
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, peritonitis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inflammation of the peritoneum, this can scar
the peritoneum and make PD no longer possible, can be avoided by doing
a sterile exchange
2 types of PD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
(CAPD)
Automated peritoneal dialysis (APD)- uses cycled at night done 8-10 hours
during sleep
During in center HD how much blood is outside of body at a time - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1/2 cup
Short Daily Home Hemodialysis must be done - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔5-6days a
week for the 2.5-4 hour per tx
a bp cuff that is too small will cause a - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Higher reading
Nocturnal home hemomust be done - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔At home 3-7 nights a
week 8 hours per tx
A no cuff that is to big for a patients arm ... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Lower reading