This volume brings together 20 articles on strategies and techniques to promote patient safety in dialysis access creation and maintenance. Nephrologists, surgeons, and other clinicians from Europe, Israel, and the US detail the terms and concepts of patient safety, key safety threats for patients with end-stage renal disease, and risk reduction strategies; safety aspects in preoperative management of chronic kidney disease; drug and contrast agent safety; ionization; cardiac safety in vascular access surgery and maintenance, as well as simulation and team training; performing anesthesia in patients with end-stage renal disease; safe vascular access creation; the role of individualization and patient preferences; prolonging the patency of vascular access; safety issues in surgical and endovascular techniques to rescue failing or failed arteriovenous fistulas and arteriovenous grafts; the risks and safe management of vascular access-induced hand ischemia; safety in peritoneal dialysis and in patients on hemodialysis with catheters; nosocomial infections; improving vascular access care; the patient's role and the importance of a dedicated vascular access team; and the role of education and research. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
