Death on Hemodialysis: Preventable or Inevitable?

Death on Hemodialysis: Preventable or Inevitable? edited by E.A. Friedman.

Death on Hemodialysis: Preventable or Inevitable? presents the transactions of the Brooklyn meeting, held in April 1993, including an analysis by Scribner and Schreiner and an introduction by Edmund Bourke. Authors include the heads of dialysis registries for Japan, Europe, and the United States, as...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Friedman, E.A (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994.
Edition:1st ed. 1994.
Series:Developments in Nephrology ; 35
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Nephrology.
Epidemiology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Death on hemodialysis: preventable or inevitable?
  • 2. Survival of middle-aged dialysis patients in Japan and the US, 1988–89
  • 3. Analysis of causes of death and of the direction of management to improve survival. Data from European Renal Association Registry (ERA-EDTA)
  • 4. Treacherous fantasy: The unfulfilled promise of Kt/V
  • 5. ESRD registry statistics on dialysis mortality in Japan
  • 6. International comparisons of dialysis survival are meaningless to evaluate differences in dialysis procedures
  • 7. Peracetic acid reuse as a risk factor for hemodialysis patient survival
  • 8. Twenty-five years of safe reuse
  • 9. Reuse accelerates death
  • 10. Reuse kills and everyone knows so
  • 11. Survival and cardiovascular mortality in type I and type II diabetics with end stage renal disease
  • 12. Mortality comparison for diabetic ESRD patients treated with CAPD versus hemodialysis
  • 13. The relative contribution of measured variables to death risk among hemodialysis patients
  • 14. Short hemodialysis: big trouble in a small package
  • 15. Functional and vocational rehabilitation of hemodialysis patients
  • 16. Correlates of long-term survival on hemodialysis
  • 17. Resuscitate home hemodialysis
  • 18. Noncompliance frustrates formulae in maintenance dialysis patients
  • 19. The UK dialysis picture revisited
  • 20. Blood pressure control: the neglected factor that affects survival of dialysis patients
  • 21. Many deaths in hemodialysis patients are preventable
  • 22. Epilogue: Lessons from mortality risks and rates.

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