[The role of peritoneal dialysis in intensive medical care: benefits and limitations].
This review analyses the advantages and limitations of actually existing technics of continuous peritoneal dialysis (CPD) which is proposed more often as the renal replacement therapy of acute renal failure in patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU's). Application of CPD for routine practice in polish ICU's needs the permanent disposable equipment for manual and automatic CPD as well as training the medical staff in the nearest nephrological reference center for PD. The last one is especially urgent, because growing population of pts treated with CAPD and APD in Poland. Some of these pts might be hospitalized in ICU's because of extrarenal complications. They need to be simultaneously treated with the technics of CPD used ambulatory before hospitalization.
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Z Kliniki Nefrologii ze Stacja Dializ Centralnego Szpitala Klinicznego WAM w Warszawie.
D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000628:therapy*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010531:Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation; D011044:Poland