Love your videos and find them super useful as a new dialysis nurse 👩⚕️ would love to know more about kt/v and BTM/recirculation 🙂 Thank you from AUS 🇦🇺💛
I’m still working on it! I want to make it real good, having to get creative with HIPPA rules :). I’m also thinking about doing a live stream for a q and a!
At my clinic, the total dialysate sodium concentration is 137mEq, which begs the question: how can the dialysis machine sodium level be set higher than 137?
I read that the temp on a machine should be adjusted lower if patient has high blood pressure to eliminate sudden drops in blood pressure and that the dialysate flow should be set lower to reduce headaches is this true I am a patient and need to know and are there any other settings I should be aware of
Machine settings can be very patient specific. There are no fast hard rules with machine settings…it all depends on the you and your history and symptoms. It can get complicated. I recommend talking more with ur nurse and provider.
@@dialysisnurselindsey historically sodium profiles have been correlated with hypertension, increased interdialytic weight gain, and higher mortality. It’s not to say that sodium profiles should never be used but other options should be exhausted first and orders should be obtained by a nephrologist who is familiar in applying sodium profiles and with the individual patient so that we can optimize the benefits and minimize the risks.
