Chronic kidney disease

INTRODUCTION Chronic kidney disease is a prevalent and dire condition that affects more than 20 million Americans (CDC 2015). In cases of end-stage renal failure, a patient must receive treatment to compensate for the complete failure of the kidneys. Currently, kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for this condition. Compared to the alternative of long-term dialysis, transplantation offers a better quality of life, is more than twice as effective at improving the long-term…

The kidneys are a pair of bean shaped organs that sit to each side of the vertebral column, with the left kidney situated slightly lower than the right. Remarkably, the pair of organs are able to process in the region of 1700 L of blood a day whilst only weighing approximately 113 – 170g (Porth, 2005). The blood is supplied to each kidney via a renal artery branching off from either side of the aorta (Martini, 2006), the renal artery then divides into segmental arteries that sub-divide into…

Chronic Kidney Disease: Annotated Bibliography. Nicholas, S. B., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., & Norris, K. C. (2015, January 5). Socioeconomic disparities in chronic kidney disease. Advances in chronic kidney disease, 22(1), 6–15. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.ackd.2014.07.002. Nicholas et al. explore multiple studies to inform how social determinants affect chronic kidney disease. This is an academic multi-case study that is written for professionals. The authors provide evidence for relationships between…

The authors of this article discuss a literature review regarding opportunities to align health information technology with the collaborative care model to improve the quality of care for patients with chronic diseases. Bauer and her colleagues stress that traditional care models hinder the use of technology. Health information technology can assist in accomplishing the goals of the collaborative care model by sharing electronic health records, as well as utilizing mobile health and…

Kidney Dialysis Kidney dialysis is a treatment that helps save lives. It uses a dialysis machine to filter out the harmful waste, salt and excess fluid from your blood, which brings the blood back to normal. To filter your blood through the machine the doctor needs to make an access through your blood vessels. They would do this by minor surgery to either your arm or leg. Sometimes they make an access by joining an artery to a vein that is under your skin to make a fistula which is a bigger…

Introduction: Postmenopausal women have a greater risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) in later life [1]. Estrogen is nephroprotective in premenopausal women; however, it has been suggested that the loss of estrogen predisposes women to reduced kidney function [2]. As a consequence, there is an increased risk of incident mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, which has been demonstrated by several studies [3-5]. The risk of incident cognitive impairment and dementia are…

not all of her patients have kidney issues. Their floor deals with a wide variety of complications and she provided me with several complications that are relatively common: peritonitis, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, and end stage renal disease. Out of all of the issues she deals with, she most frequently sees liver cirrhosis. She explained to me…

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) and dialysis have negative impact on lifestyle. Renal transplantation improves many facets of daily life. Male sexuality is a significant predictor of quality of life. This brief review summarizes the impacts of ESRD and renal replacement on a range of sexual domains as presented at the European Association of Urology meeting in Vienna. In choosing renal transplantation, men expect superior long-term survival compared to other means of renal replacement. Moreover,…

Septic Shock Affecting Mental Capacity The assignment is to support an insight into a safeguarding issue where the patient is self-neglecting due to the lack of circumstantial mental capacity to take a decision. I have chosen the Gibbs’ reflective cycle (Oxford Brookes University, 2016) to comprehend and reflect the scenario. The Gibbs’ reflective cycle will enable to follow step by step; focusing on the description of the issue, how I felt about it, initial evaluation and the analysis of the…

2. The atomic bomb was also invented by several scientists and it killed over 300,000 people in Japanese cities. Besides that a man named Willen Johan Kolff decided on creating a machine that could save many peoples life, he created the first ever kidney…