CHRONIC kidney disease (CKD) affects approximately 700 million individuals worldwide. Many patients with CKD require haemodialysis, and more than two-thirds of these patients have CKD-associated pruritus (CKD-aP). CKD-aP can be bothersome for many patients and drastically affect quality of life, from causing sleep issues to mental health problems. Almost 40% of dialysis patients are at least ‘moderately’ bothered and 19% of patients are at least very much bothered by pruritus.
EMJ Nephrology 9 [Supplement 4] . 2021
November 2021
Latest articles
All articles
12 Mins
20
Jul
Editor’s Pick: Blood Volume Monitoring: A Clinical Tool to Guide Ultrafiltration in Volume Control and Optimisation of Intradialytic Blood Pressure
The use of BVM dates back to the early 1990s when CRIT-LINE® technology (Fresenius Medical Care, Bad Homburg, Germany) was first used as a non-invasive method of measuring haematocrit changes during haemodialysis, in real time, by connection of an additional monitor to the dialysis arterial line set-up.