Lessons learnt and future directions in managing dialysis access during the COVID 19 pandemic: Patient and provider experience in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID 19 pandemic adversely impacted delivery of preventive, routine, urgent, and essential care worldwide. Dialysis access care was particularly affected due to the lack of specific guidelines regarding procedures for its creation and maintenance. Early guidance by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid was inadvertently interpreted as guidance to stop dialysis access procedures. Prompt action by professional societies was needed to furnish detailed guidance to establish essential nature of these procedures.

Methods

The American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) issued a joint statement with Vascular Access Society of the Americas (VASA) - "Maintaining Lifelines for ESKD Patients" to clearly establish the role of vascular access as a life

SUBMITTER: Agarwal AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10018246 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature