The impact of extended-hours home hemodialysis and buttonhole cannulation technique on hospitalization rates for septic events related to dialysis access

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-463

  Van Eps, Carolyn L ^a,b   Jones, Mark ^b   Ng, Tsun ^a   Johnson, David W ^a,b   Campbell, Scott B ^a,b   Isbel, Nicole M ^a,b   Mudge, David W ^a,b   Beller, Elaine ^b   Hawley, Carmel M ^a,b  

^a Departments of Nephrology   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buttonhole cannulation; Cardiovascular disease; Complications; Hospitalization; Nocturnal hemodialysis; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; BUTTONHOLE CANNULATION; CANNULATION; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; DEHYDRATION; DIABETIC PATIENT; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EPILEPSY; EPISTAXIS; EXTENDED DAILY DIALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HERNIOPLASTY; HOME DIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NEPHRECTOMY; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PROLACTINOMA; SEPSIS; SKIN DEFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR ACCESS; VITRECTOMY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS, HOME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUEENSLAND; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77958534187     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2010.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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