Do you proceed with outpatient hemodialysis for an asymptomatic ESKD patient who has missed the last three hemodialysis sessions?
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Nephrology · King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guards Health Affairs
In the ideal world, missing too many HD sessions (no magical number) can predispose patients to quick normalization of low Na or very high BUN which we don’t want to! Also, asymptomatic patients don’t mean okay volume, patients' BP might be as high as 200s and this needs extra sessions to get back t...