Hemodialysis Adequacy: A Review

✍ Scribed by Ankit N. Mehta; Andrew Z. Fenves

• Book ID: 102141070
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-2934
• DOI: 10.1002/dat.20392

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

“Adequate dialysis” is interpreted as the amount of dialysis required to keep a patient alive and relatively asymptomatic. Since the inception of hemodialysis, there have been numerous approaches to quantify the delivered dialysis dose in a reproducible manner, and to link the dialysis dose with clinical outcomes.