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Introduction:
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Kidney is one of the most important organs in our ingenious waste filter and waste management system. Their main function is to excrete metabolic end products of the food and excess water we consume. Kidneys also perform many other important functions of waste |
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management. About 30% of critically ill patients develop renal failure of various severity. Therefore, referring it to an experienced nephrologist becomes essential, so as to correctly diagnose and treat the disorder. |
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Scope of Services: |
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Management of end stage renal diseases. |
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Management of acute renal failure. |
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Renal angiography and angioplasty |
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Renal biopsy and its histopathological evaluation |
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Managing patients with serious medical emergencies like poisoning, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, etc. |
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Procedures like exchange transfusion and plasmapheresis. |
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Pre, peri and post operative management of renal transplant patients. |
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Facilities: |
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Well-equipped hemodialysis unit having most advanced dialysis machines. |
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Highly specialised water treatment plant giving best quality water for effective dialysis. |
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Hemodialysis unit equipped with efficient cardiac monitoring, central oxygen supply and other emergency treatment facilities for critically ill patients. |
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Hemodialysis in critical care units for patients on ventilators and other critically ill patients |
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Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) - For the first time in India, the facility to treat multi-organ dysfunction, septicemia, refractory CCF, etc. having hemodynamic instability. |
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Peritoneal dialysis |
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Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and CAPD training facilities for end-stage renal failure patients |
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Departmental Activities: |
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Continuous counseling of patients on dialysis. |
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Intermittent dialysis treatments are treatments that are provided for brief intervals, usually every day or every 2-3 days as required (e.g. intermittent hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis). Continuous Renal Replacement |
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Therapies (CRRT) are dialysis treatments that are provided as a continuous 24 hour per day therapy. Both intermittent hemodialysis and continuous hemodialysis circuits utilize the same principles. Blood is removed from the patient, pumped through a dialysis filter and returned to the patient following removal of surplus water and wastes. The filter performs many of the functions of the kidney's nephron unit, hence, it is referred to as an "artificial kidney".
The major difference between intermittent and continuous therapies is the speed at which water and wastes are removed. Intermittent hemodialysis removes large amounts of water and wastes in a short period of time (usually over 2-4 hours), whereas, continuous renal replacement therapies remove water and wastes at a slow and steady rate. While intermittent dialysis allows chronic renal failure patients to limit the amount of time that they are connected to a machine, the rapid removal of water and wastes during intermittent treatments may be poorly tolerated by hemodynamically unstable patients.
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