Optimizing PD Therapy

About this Course

This education activity continues to explore important concepts and principles of PD therapy for the nurse learner. Review the essential techniques for preparing and completing a PD exchange as well as other key procedures. Take an in-depth look at tools and support that will enable your patients to integrate home life with PD. Focus on how to achieve euvolemia in PD by applying a structured diagnostic approach to the evaluation of fluid balance problems. Finally, learn the process of developing and managing a dialysis PD prescription based on the patient’s unique peritoneal membrane.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the importance of residual kidney function.
• Discuss potential strategies to preserve residual kidney function.
• Identify the reversible causes of volume overload.
• Discuss concepts and activities essential to PD patient success at home.
• Describe procedures essential to optimize PD and patient success on therapy.
• Review the fundamentals of a PD prescription.
• Explain the Peritoneal Equilibration Test and how it is used to guide the PD prescription.

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