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Title: | Is It Time to Give Peritoneal Dialysis Its Due Place in Managing Acute Kidney Injury: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 Pandemic | Authors: | Javaid, Muhammad M. Ekladious, Adel Khan, Behram A. |
Keywords: | Acute kidney injury COVID-19 Continuous renal replacement therapies Dialysis Extracorporeal dialysis modalities Peritoneal dialysis |
Issue Date: | 17-Nov-2023 | Publisher: | S. Karger AG | Citation: | Javaid, Muhammad M., Ekladious, Adel, Khan, Behram A. (2023-11-17). Is It Time to Give Peritoneal Dialysis Its Due Place in Managing Acute Kidney Injury: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 Pandemic. Blood Purification. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1159/000535243 | Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | Abstract: | Despite comparable outcomes with the extracorporeal dialysis modalities, peritoneal dialysis (PD) is seldom considered a viable option for managing acute kidney injury (AKI) in developed and resource-rich countries, where continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRTs) are the mainstay of treating AKI. PD has fewer infrastructure requirements and has been shown to save lives during conflicts, natural disasters, and pandemics. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the developed world was confronted with a sudden surge in critically ill AKI patients requiring renal replacement therapy. There were acute shortages of CRRT machines and the trained staff to deliver those treatments. Some centres developed acute PD programmes to circumvent these issues with good results. This experience re-emphasised the suitability of PD for managing AKI. It also highlighted the need to review the current management strategies for AKI in developed countries and consider incorporating PD as a viable tool for suitable patients. This article reviews the current evidence of using PD in AKI, attempts to clarify some misconceptions about PD in AKI, and argues in favour of developing acute PD programmes. | Source Title: | Blood Purification | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/246779 | ISSN: | 0253-5068 1421-9735 |
DOI: | 10.1159/000535243 | Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International |
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