Research Catalog

Title

Death on hemodialysis : preventable or inevitable? / edited by Eli A. Friedman ; sponsored by The International Society for Artificial Organs.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Friedman, Eli A., 1933-

Description

xiii, 207 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Developments in nephrology ; v. 35

Uniform Title

Developments in nephrology ; 35.

Subjects

• Renal Dialysis > mortality
• Risk Factors
• Congress
• Hemodialysis > Congresses
• Chronic renal failure > Mortality > Congresses

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword: Introduction to the final challenge / E. Bourke -- 1. Death on hemodialysis: preventable or inevitable? / E. A. Friedman -- 2. Survival of middle-aged dialysis patients in Japan and the US, 1988-89 / P. J. Held, T. Akiba, N. S. Stearns, F. Marumo, M. N. Turenne, K. Maeda and F. K. Port -- 3. Analysis of causes of death and of the direction of management to improve survival. Data from European Renal Association Registry (ERA-EDTA) / N. P. Mallick, E. P. Brunner, E. Jones and N. H. Selwood -- 4. Treacherous fantasy: The unfulfilled promise of Kt/V / H. J. Gurland and S. K. Mujais -- 5. ESRD registry statistics on dialysis mortality in Japan / F. Marumo, K. Maeda and S. Koshikawa -- 6. International comparisons of dialysis survival are meaningless to evaluate differences in dialysis procedures / C. M. Kjellstrand -- 7. Peracetic acid reuse as a risk factor for hemodialysis patient survival / A. J. Collins, J. Ma and A. Umen.
• 8. Twenty-five years of safe reuse / C. R. Blagg, T. K. Sawyer and G. Bischak -- 9. Reuse accelerates death / J. D. Bower -- 10. Reuse kills and everyone knows so / S. Shaldon -- 11. Survival and cardiovascular mortality in type I and type II diabetics with end stage renal disease / A. E. G. Raine and E. Ritz -- 12. Mortality comparison for diabetic ESRD patients treated with CAPD versus hemodialysis / F. K. Port, C. B. Nelson and R. A. Wolfe -- 13. The relative contribution of measured variables to death risk among hemodialysis patients / E. G. Lowrie, W. H. Huang, N. L. Lew and Y. Liu -- 14. Short hemodialysis: big trouble in a small package / R. H. Barth -- 15. Functional and vocational rehabilitation of hemodialysis patients / O. Ifudu, H. Paul, J. Mayers, L. Cohen, W. F. Brezsnyak, A. Herman, M. M. Avram and E. A. Friedman -- 16. Correlates of long-term survival on hemodialysis / M. M. Avram, P. Goldwasser, D. Derkatz and S. A. Gusik -- 17. Resuscitate home hemodialysis / B. G. Delano.
• 18. Noncompliance frustrates formulae in maintenance dialysis patients / T. K. S. Rao, A. Sealey and E. A. Friedman -- 19. The UK dialysis picture revisited / G. M. Berlyne -- 20. Blood pressure control: the neglected factor that affects survival of dialysis patients / B. H. Scribner -- 21. Many deaths in hemodialysis patients are preventable / A. P. Lundin -- 22. Epilogue: Lessons from mortality risks and rates / G. E. Schreiner.

ISBN

0792326520 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93042588

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries