case study for clinical pharmacists
aborashyd83Chief Complaint Not available. HPI Martin James is a 73-year-old man who originally presented to the hospital with symptoms of heart failure that culminated in aortic and mitral valve replacement…
Standards of Clinical Practice for Renal Pharmacists
Clinical pharmacy is the branch of pharmacy in which clinical pharmacists provide direct patient care that optimizes the use of medication and promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention. Clinical pharmacists…
dialysis common questions
Pediatric Hemodialysis Children can be treated with dialysis Children can be treated with hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. As in adult patients, more children are begun on hemodialysis than on peritoneal…
THE BEST OPTION FOR RRT
THE BEST OPTION FOR RRT One of the best option of kidney failure management is Kidney transplant it offer patients a new life less mortality and morbidity it less cost…
INTERPRETATION OF DIALYZER SPECIFICATION
Priming volume: Is how much blood needs to fill dialyzer capillaries, it consider as dead blood volume. it is varies among dialyzers, as a role of thumb, more priming volume,…
DIALYZER MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE
Membrane performance, as determined by the effectiveness of solute clearance and biocompatibility, is of greatest concern when choosing a dialyzer. Technological advances in membrane design, chemical composition, and sterilization methods…
DIALYZER AND HEMODIALYSIS PRESCRIPTION
As described by Daugirdas, many excellent nephrologists follow an empiric model when devising the hemodialysis prescription: place patients on the largest dialyzer that they can afford, dialyze them for the…
FACTORS AFFECT DRUG DIALYZABILITY
The extent to which a drug is affected by dialysis is determined primarily by several physicochemical characteristics of the drug, which are briefly described in the text that follows. These…
HEAMODIALYSIS DIALYZER BIOCOMPATIBILITY
Complement Activation The level of complement activation produced by a membrane is considered a significant determinant of membrane biocompatibility. All membranes activate complement and leukocytes to some extent, but unmodified…
DIALYSIS BASIC CONCEPTS
All dialysis machine equipped with volume metric UF control. Blood flow speed is accurately calibrated.-+5% All modern artificial kidneys (Dialyzers) are semi identical. Urea clearance affect patients outcome. Dialyzer clearance…