
Episode 63: Understanding dialysis, with Paul Adams
Critical Care Scenarios
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The Importance of Dialysis in Dialysis Treatment
CRT is not an instantaneous therapy. It takes at least like 18 hours to make a difference and probably more because these people are sick,. Like we can only clear so much stuff and they're making a whole bunch more of it, right? So it's going to take a while. And I would be less afraid of doing chemo, regular old hemodialysis on sick patients. What you can do in 24 hours on CRT, you can do with three hours on chemo. No one should feel like a patient with bad Robdom should be treated if their kidneys are still working just to try to prevent kidney failure.
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