This book offers a comprehensive guide to peritoneal dialysis (PD). Home dialysis, and more specifically PD, is growing in popularity in the US. By conservative estimates, experts suggest that 45 percent of dialysis patients in the US can be on home dialysis. However, the current penetration rate is only 10 percent. This is changing with an expected major increase in the next 5 years. One of the reasons for the low uptake is that many nephrologists lack comfort and confidence in using PD as a dialysis modality.

This book addresses those concerns by covering all aspects of PD. Chapters include its history, patient selection, implementation options, comorbidities, quality of life concerns, and developing approaches to treatment. This comprehensive resource fills the unmet need for a practical, hands-on book that is both detailed and can work as a quick reference.

This is an ideal guide for academic nephrologists, private practice nephrologists, NPs, PAs, nurses, fellows, and residents.

History of peritoneal dialysis

Physiology of peritoneal dialysis
Patient selection and training for PD
Peritoneal dialysis solutions
Peritoneal dialysis equipment/machines
PD catheters
Adequacy of peritoneal dialysis
Techniques of peritoneal dialysis.-  Peritoneal dialysis in acute kidney injury: prescribing acute peritoneal dialysis therapy
Prescribing chronic peritoneal dialysis therapy
Urgent Start PD
Infectious complications related to peritoneal dialysis
Non- infectious complications during peritoneal dialysis
Common ESRD complication in PD, and the differences with HD
Peritoneal dialysis in the diabetic patients
Peritoneal dialysis in special situations
Survival in peritoneal dialysis population
Quality of life in PD patients
Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis vs. automated dialysis: are there differences in the outcome? .-  Peritoneal dialysis in children
Intraperitoneal chemotherapy.-  Commonly asked questions
Howto build a successful PD program
Peritoneal dialysis in developing countries.-