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Comment
. 2007;11(3):133.
doi: 10.1186/cc5914.

Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units

Nishkantha Arulkumaran  1 , John B Eastwood, Debasish Banerjee
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Comment

Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units

Nishkantha Arulkumaran et al. Crit Care. 2007.

Abstract

Hutchison and colleagues report a 10-year experience of dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK excluding Scotland. Their study is the largest published so far and raises issues of interest to both ICU physicians and nephrologists. Overall, the dialysis patients, although sicker on admission and having pre-existing co-morbidities, do as well as other ICU patients. Their clinical progress after leaving the ICU, however, is less good than for other ICU patients, raising the possibility that the patients might be leaving too early, or perhaps that dialysis patients should be discharged to a high-dependency unit rather than go direct to a renal ward. All in all, the paper by Hutchison and colleagues provides a useful foundation for planning the critical care management of dialysis patients in the UK and elsewhere.

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