This revised and updated New Edition of the popular handbook focuses on bedside care of renal patients, from the mildly impaired to dialysis and transplant patients. Step-by-step guidelines pilot readers through assessment, proper drug doses, how and whento prescribe dialysis, how to manage hemodialysis and chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), immunosuppression of transplant patients, what to do during specific nephrologic emergencies, and more.

Reviews of Last Edition:

"Very well written and uniformly laid out. 'Boxed' items highlight particular points in each chapter, and the case summaries are quite illustrative on the topics being covered...Recommended."

--Dialysis & Transplantation

 

"Highly recommended as a reference for nephrology nurses and other allied health professionals. Well written, clearly organized and relevant...Provides valuable information."

--ANNA Journal (American Nephrology Nurses Association)

1. Assessment of the Patient with Renal Disease / John T. Harrington

2. Hematuria, Proteinuria, and Nephrotic Syndrome / Cecil H. Coggins

3. Acute Nephritic Syndrome / Daniel C. Cattran

4. Sodium and Potassium Disturbances in Renal Patients / Biff F. Palmer, Robert D. Toto and Robert J. Alpern

5. Acid-Base Disorders in Azotemic Patients / David Z. Levine and Kevin D. Burns

6. Obstructive Uropathy / Saulo Klahr

7. Diabetic Nephropathy / Sharon G. Adler, Stella Feld and Richard J. Glassock

8. Renal Disease and Hypertension in Pregnancy / Marshall D. Lindheimer and Jason G. Umans

9. Pediatric Nephrology / Norman M. Wolfish

10. Stone Disease / Roger A. L. Sutton

11. Edematous States and Hepatorenal Syndrome / Mortimer Levy

12. Drug Use in Renal Patients and the Extracorporeal Treatment of Poisonings / Suzanne K. Swan and William M. Bennett

13. Chronic Renal Failure / Kevin W. Finkel and Thomas D. DuBose, Jr. 14. Renal Bone Diseases and Aluminum Toxicity in Renal Patients / Jack W. Coburn, William G. Goodman and Isidro B. Salusky

15. Nutritional Concerns for Patients with Kidney Disease / James L. Bailey and William E. Mitch

16. Psychiatric Aspects of Renal Care / Norman B. Levy

17. Selected Ethical Issues in Caring for the Renal Patient / Ronald Baker Miller

18. The Role of the Nurse in Caring for the Renal Patient / Linda Panther

19. Peritoneal Dialysis / Nicholas V. Dombros, Georges E. Digenis and Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos

20. Hemodialysis / Nuhad Ismail and Raymond M. Hakim

21. Renal Transplantation: Approaches to Graft Dysfunction and the Consequences of Immunosuppression / Simin Goral and J. Harold Helderman

22. Urgent Problems in the Renal Patient / Kevin D. Burns, Nicholas B. Argent and Robert C. Bell