What is your approach for ESKD patients on peritoneal dialysis who request to do their own exchanges during a hospitalization?

I am very fortunate in that the University of Colorado Hospital has PD nurses on call 24/7. When patients are hospitalized, they are all, even those who usually do CAPD at home, treated with APD performed by the on-call PD nurse. For liability reasons, all machines are set up by the PD nurses. I realize that in a different setting, this may not be feasible. But, at the risk of stating the obvious, if a patient is sufficiently ill as to require hospitalization- or is receiving narcotics for analg...

Yes, at our MGB, we also have 24 x 7 availability of PD Nurses.