Do you prefer that hospitalized peritoneal dialysis patients use their own home dialysis equipment during the admission?
Answer from: at Community Practice
At our hospital, where we have our own PD equipment and RNs on call to set it up, we strongly prefer that patients DO NOT use their personal equipment. Liability concerns, but this approach won't work in a hospital where that backup does not exist. If the patient's choice is to have a TDC placed for...
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Answer from: at Academic Institution
I prefer to let the nurses do it, even though the patients may be more familiar with the procedure. Most of our patients are now on a cycler and we do not have cyclers in the hospital so everything becomes some version of CAPD (which not all patients are that familiar with, manual exchanges) which t...