| Description |
1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) |
| Contents |
PREVENTION OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS RELATED INFECTIONS LESSONS TO LEARN -- Preventing Peritonitis: Role of Nurse -- PERITONITIS-FREE PERITONEAL DIALYSIS INITIATI -- Peritonitis in CAPD Microbiological Considerations in Diagnosis -- Medical management of peritonits with antimicrobial therapy -- ULTRAFILTRATION FAILURE IN PD PERITNOITIS -- Peritoneal dialysis related peritonitis and transfer to hemodialysis -Challenges -- RELAPSING AND REFRACTORY PERITONITIS SPECIAL Challenge -- REIMPLANTATION AND REINITIATION OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS AFTER CATHETER REMOVAL FOR REFRACTORY PERITONITIS -- Peritonitis Related Mortality -- INDICATIONS AND FINDINGS ON PERITONEAL BIOPSY -- Usefulness of imaging of PD related complications -- NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN CAPD PATIENTS WITH PERITONITIS |
| Summary |
This book is unique in addressing the management and complications of PD-related peritonitis to reduce morbidity and mortality. It addresses the measures to prevent peritonitis, types of tools used for diagnosis, including molecular techniques, the focus of microbiologists for educating peers, catheter-related issues such as catheter care, exit site, and tunnel infection, catheter removal, reimplantation techniques, nurses' role, nutrition aspects, surgical methods and pediatric peritoneal dialysis, peritonitis with its uniqueness in detail. Each chapter starts with a case scenario and pictures related to the branch by the contributors' experience. This book is helpful for physicians, nurses, technicians, microbiologists, ID trainees and consultants, nephrology trainees, nephrologists, and surgeons involved in PD care |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2023) |
| Subject |
Peritoneal dialysis.
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Peritoneal dialysis -- Complications
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Peritonitis.
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Peritoneal Dialysis
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Peritonitis
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Peritoneal dialysis.
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Peritonitis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abraham, Georgi, editor
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Varughese, Santosh (Professor of Nephrology), editor.
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Sekar, Uma, editor
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| ISBN |
9819922755 |
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9789819922758 |
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