Getting Dialysis Wrong- Newly Appreciated Ways we Hurt our Patients!
Getting Dialysis Wrong- Newly Appreciated Ways we Hurt our Patients!
Speaker: Chris McIntyre, MD, MBBS DM
Professor of Medicine, Medical Biophysics & Pediatrics
Robert Lindsay Chair, Dialysis Research and Innovation
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario
Director, Lilibeth Caberto Kidney Clinical Research Unit (KCRU)
Educational Objectives:
- Appreciate that poor outcomes for dialysis patients is derived partly from the treatment itself
- Circulatory stress of the treatment causes multiple ischemic organ injuries
- Salt is a major uremic toxin and builds up in tissues causing further injury
- All of the above are amenable to novel interventions cast in an evolved understanding of the nature of the injury
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