With the proper support system, urgent-start peritoneal dialysis is feasible and cost-efficient, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.
“If patients with advanced chronic kidney disease develop a need for urgent dialysis initiation, we typically put in a temporary or permanent tunneled catheter for hemodialysis. It’s become very easy for us to do that. We either put it in or you would consult radiology to place it in, and then the patient initiates dialysis. This process has been going on for several years now,” Shani Shastri, MD, MPH, MS, an