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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 171-173 |
Peritoneal dialysis patients during COVID 19 pandemic
Tarun Jeloka1, Amit Gupta2, Narayan Prasad2, Santosh Varughese3, Sandeep Mahajan4, KS Nayak5, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal4, Georgi Abraham6, On behalf of COVID-19 Working Group of Indian Society of Nephrology7
1 Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India
2 Department of Nephrology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
3 Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
4 AIIMS, New Delhi, India
5 Virinchi Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
6 Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Correspondence Address:
Narayan Prasad
Department of Nephrology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijn.IJN_192_20
COVID pandemic poses challenges to peritoneal dialysis patients, caretaker, and service provider to the PD patients as well. The chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients are trained to do the PD procedure at home, therefore can avoid in-center hospital visit unlike patients on hemodialysis. Thus, PD patients can avoid undue exposure to the novel coronavirus. The PD can be offered in COVID induced AKI patients, even in remote places where hemodialysis cannot be offered. The paper is aimed to provide guidelines about the safe use of PD and treatment of complications during the COVID pandemic.
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