Understanding Your New Life With Dialysis: A Patient Guide For Physical And Psychological Adjustment

Understanding Your New Life With Dialysis: A Patient Guide for Physical and Psychological Adjustment

Life prolongation by maintenance hemodialysis is an everyday affair for more than 100,000 Americans. Over the interval between the First and Fourth Editions of Understanding Your New Life with Dialysis, major advances in patient care have been introduced, including the availability of synthetic vitamin D and the rapid introduction of recombinant erythropoietin as an aid in eliminating anemia. However, despite the many changes, dialysis still holds many challenges for patients. For the patient about to embark on a course of maintenance dialysis, this book is a superb guide. It describes the many different facets of life with dialysis and includes among the chapters pictures and brief vignettes about people who have been on dialysis for some time. This is a book for everyone involved with dialysis. It is a gathering together of the experience and work of thousands of people: patients who have learned to live without kidneys, families who have provided unstinting support, and professionals who have dedicated themselves to making artificial kidney treatment a viable way of life.