Sentences with phrase «as dialysis patients»

It can pose a problem for those who often need IV medical treatments, such as dialysis patients or hemophiliacs who require blood transfusions.

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The worst performer in Buffett's portfolio was DaVita (dva), the health care dialysis company that treats patients with diabetes and whose stock has been punished by uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Twenty patients with kidney failure, for example, showed levels of ammonia and acetone more than 10 times that of healthy controls, and the researchers could watch those levels fall back to normal as the patients received dialysis treatment.

«While randomized clinical trials are needed to test whether this is a causal relationship, these findings indicate doctors should consider using or re-starting ACEIs and ARBs as first - line blood pressure medications for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis,» said Jenny I. Shen, MD, an LA BioMed researcher and corresponding author of the study.

For the purpose of this replacement therapy, the patient's blood is purified using filters, in a process similar to dialysis, and then it is reinjected into the patient via an infusion drip; alternatively, it is replaced with a blood substitute such as albumin.

Doctors treat this by connecting patients to dialysis machines that act as artificial kidneys.

Patients on dialysis are very vulnerable during emergencies or disasters due to their dependence on technology and infrastructure such as transportation, electricity and water to sustain their lives.

It is disturbing to enter the tribe's newly renovated dialysis clinic, which treats three shifts of patients each day, and see the young bodies as well as the elderly hooked up to the machines and their pale, drawn faces while their blood is cleansed.

The answers, I learned, lay in the grinding poverty and entrenched corruption of India, the desperation of patients on dialysis, and the transnational nature of the black market transplant business — which, though dominated by the kidney exchange, includes livers and hearts as well.

For example, the authors suggest that hepatitis C - positive kidneys should be offered to uninfected patients who have a high risk of health deterioration if they continue dialysis — including elderly patients or those with serious co-existing conditions, such as cardiovascular disease — disadvantageous blood types or other conditions that would mean many years of waiting for an appropriate hepatitis C - negative kidney to become available.

The researchers» analysis revealed that opioid - related ICU admissions increased an average of more than half a percent each year over the seven - year study period and that patients admitted to ICUs as a result of overdose required increasingly intensive care, including high - cost renal replacement therapy or dialysis.

The research also indicates that a low protein, low salt diet may not only slows the progression of CKD as an effective adjunct therapy, but it can also be used for the management of uremia, or high levels of urea and other uremic toxins in the blood, in late - stage or advanced CKD and help patients defer the need to initiate dialysis.

While such tissue would not be suitable for implantation, it could, says Stroock, make a kind of personalized, living dialysis machine for the patient, as well as being a step toward the goal of producing replacement organs.

Dialysis and kidney transplantation can serve as successful strategies to treat patients who have lost kidney function; however, regenerative medicine could make it possible to replace lost or damaged tissue, or replace the kidney entirely.

Margarita Kullick has 35 years experience as a nephrologist and has helped many patients avoid dialysis, reversed Insulin dependent diabetes and avoid the complications of diabetes.

Plasma PLP concentrations are also low in patients receiving maintenance kidney dialysis or intermittent peritoneal dialysis, as well as those who have undergone a kidney transplant, perhaps due to increased metabolic clearance of PLP.

As a a nephrologist she has helped patients avoid dialysis, and has years of experience treating chronic health conditions.

Dialysis, or as a last resort, kidney transplantation can save the patient, although the costs can be prohibitive for most owners (see below).»

Research Interests Critical care of polytrauma patients, troponin as a biomarker in traumatic myocarditis, the application of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (dialysis) for companion animals with acute kidney failure, advanced therapeutic approaches to immune mediated hemolytic anemia, and novel laboratory assessment of coagulopathies (including thromboelastography and platelet aggregometry).

Peritoneal dialysis is less high tech and uses the patient's own abdomen as the dialyzer membrane.

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Organ damage may require a lifetime of medical treatments, such as dialysis, to keep the patient alive.

As per the figures presented by Mr Jaitley, India sees almost 2.2 lakh new patients of End - Stage Renal Disease annually, which leads to an additional demand for around 3.4 crore dialysis sessions.

• Setup equipment and run pre dialysis tests on the patient • Process dialyzer for reuse as per infection control protocols • Transport patients to and from dialysis room • Perform dialysis procedures • Monitor and document post dialysis response

They are specialized in performing dialysis procedures and after - care for patients, as an important part of the nephrology department.

It stresses her ability to understand the particular needs of dialysis patients and the dialysis process through skills such as administering treatment and recognizing kidney problems.

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Working at this position means that you will be performing the regular duties of a registered nurse such as talking and recording vitals, handling IVs and IMs, administering medication and providing patient education, in addition to setting up dialysis equipment, preparing patients for procedures and assisting technicians throughout the process.

The Unit Secretary, Outpatient Dialysis, works under the direction of a registered nurse to perform the secretarial / clerical aspects of patient care; serves as unit receptionist; maintains inventory...

Eligibility criteria to work as a dialysis nurse includes a nursing license, with a specialty in working with patients who have renal dysfunctions.

Some hospitals employ certified medical assistants to work as patient care technicians or dialysis technicians.

As well as publishing the research around the intervention — which involves giving a 20 cent tablet three times a week after dialysis — the research team has made two short videos to provide a plain language summary for patients and the general communitAs well as publishing the research around the intervention — which involves giving a 20 cent tablet three times a week after dialysis — the research team has made two short videos to provide a plain language summary for patients and the general communitas publishing the research around the intervention — which involves giving a 20 cent tablet three times a week after dialysis — the research team has made two short videos to provide a plain language summary for patients and the general community.