Complications
Infection of the Peritoneum
What is Peritonitis?
Peritoneal dialysis uses the patients own _____ as a semi permeable dialyzing membrane.
What is a peritoneum?
Newly trained PD patients and high risk patients are monitored from home via__________
Home Remote Monitoring
This is common during the inflow of dialysate when patients are first started on PD therapy. After a week or two it usually resides.
What is pain.
Heparin can help to dissolve _____to prevent catheter blockage.
What is fibrin?
Redness, swelling, and purulent drainage are signs of ______ at the exit site
What is Infection?
PD solution contains______ that helps facilitate osmosis/ fluid exchange
What is dextrose?
_____ is applied on the exit site after daily exit site care to prevent infection.
What is Gentamycin cream ?
After completing PD treatment daily, patients are required to log their ______, _____, type of dextrose solutions used and blood glucose levels ( if diabetic)
What are weight and blood pressure?
______,_____ and_____ are some of the practices to prevent infection ( peritonitis)
What are hand washing, masking and controlling air flow?
_____ is usually treated with antibiotic agents through the peritoneal catheter
What is Peritonitis?
Automated Peritoneal Dialysis uses a device called a _____ to perform exchanges at night.
What is a cycler?
PD patients are allowed 1.2 to 1.4 grams of _____/kg/day because it is lost with each exchange.
What is protein?
When should a PD patient be weighed to obtain a dry weight or target weight?
What is after a drain and before the next fill.
You can warm the dialysate bags before instillation by using a heating pad to wrap the bag or by using the warming chamber of the automated cycling machine. _______ are NOT recommended for the warming of dialysate.
What are microwaves.
Abdominal pain, nausea/ vomiting, cloudy PD fluid.
What are the some signs of peritonitis?
______ allows the patient freedom from a machine and the independence to perform dialysis alone.
What is CAPD-Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis?
If protein intake is not adequate, patient's serum____ levels decline
What is Albumin?
There are three different PD dextrose solutions ___,___,___ to help facilitate dialysis.
what are 1.5%, 2.5% and 4.25% solutions?
Patients on PD should eat a high ____ diet and use _______ to prevent constipation.
What is fiber and stool softeners.
Drainage and redness at the exit site
What is exit site infection?
During dwell time _____, ______, and ______ occur.
What is ultrafiltration, osmosis, and diffusion?
Poor dialysate flow is usually related to _______ ( digestive issue).
What is constipation?
After completing the PD procedure, the nurse should do what three things with the outflow?
What is measure, record, and dispose of the outflow.
________ can help stimulate the inflow or outflow.
What is repositioning?