When chronic kidney disease becomes advanced. Guidelines for care in the emergency department and hospital.
Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease live with a serious condition that often necessitates visits to an emergency department and subsequent hospitalization. Often, physicians in these settings are not trained in nephrology. Emergency department physicians and other nonnephrologists who regularly manage advanced chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease need to follow several basic principles to provide excellent care to patients with these conditions.
Mosenkis
Ari
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Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA. mosenkis@hotmail.com
Kirk
Deepa
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Berns
Jeffrey S
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D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care