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View Post: Perspective
17 Nov 2009 by The Brown Woman  
The three basic kinds of vascular access for hemodialysis are an arteriovenous (AV) fistula, an AV graft, and a venous catheter. A fistula is an opening or connection between any two parts of the body that are usually separate—for ...
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View Post: Change in Vascular Access and Mortality in Maintenance ...
14 Sep 2009 by Eduardo Lacson, Weiling Wang, J. Michael...  
Setting & Participants. All maintenance in-center hemodialysis patients treated in Fresenius Medical Care, North America legacy facilities alive on January 1, 2007 with baseline laboratory data from December 2006. ...
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View Post: Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative Provides Roadmap to Reach ...
2 Nov 2009 by renee  
Practitioner Training and Credentialing: Promote training, experience, and credentialing of health care professionals in the area of hemodialysis vascular access management. FFBI Change Concepts: Expand and endorse the current change ...
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View Post: Lifeline Vascular Access Managed Centers Top 300000 Patient Encounters
29 Oct 2009
Formerly known as RMS Lifeline®, Lifeline Vascular Access works with premier physician practices to develop and manage physician-owned outpatient vascular access centers. Dialysis access procedures performed at the centers include ...
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View Post: the natural history of vascular access for hemodialysis: a single ...
28 Jul 2009 by admin  
conclusion: with the possible exception of older patients with diabetes, autogenous conduits are preferable for dialysis access. summary: the clinical guidelines for vascular access from the national kidney foundation disease outcomes ...
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View Post: Percutaneous Creation of a Venous Anastomosis in a Native ...
26 Aug 2009 by Samantha L. Heller, Timothy WI Clark  
The advantages of autogenous fistulas over grafts and catheters for vascular access in hemodialysis are well recognized and include lower rates of all-cause mortality and infection and significantly decreased total access costs. ...
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View Post: CCOM Research News » Blog Archive » UI-led NIH Study Shows Drug ...
26 May 2009 by potterr  
A new study, led by a University of Iowa researcher, shows for the first time that the anti-clotting drug dipyridamole combined with aspirin delays the initial failure of arteriovenous vascular access grafts used in hemodialysis for ...
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View Post: Daily on line haemodiafiltration promotes catch-up growth in ...
4 Nov 2009 by Fischbach, M., Terzic, J., Menouer, S.,...  
Vascular access was a fistula (13/15) or a central venous catheter (2/15). Dialysis was delivered daily, six days a week in 3 hourly sessions (18 h/week), in a predilution OL-HDF mode, allowing a high convective volume (18 to 27 L/m2 ...
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