Renal Nursing: a Guide to Practice

Content: Front Cover
 Foreword
 Acknowledgements
 Table of Contents
 Section one: General nephrology
 Chapter one: Chronic renal failure
 Chapter two: Acute renal failure
 Chapter three: Renal Osteodystrophy
 Chapter four: Selected disease processes
 Chapter five: Pharmacology
 Chapter six: Investigation of structure and function
 Section two: Haemodialysis
 Chapter one: An overview of treatment
 Chapter two: Vascular access
 Chapter three: The extracorporeal circuit
 Chapter four: Anticoagulation
 Chapter five: Dialysate preparation
 Chapter six: The impact of chronic illness. Chapter seven: Dialysing the acutely ill patientChapter eight: Acute complications of haemodialysis
 Chapter nine: Assessment of therapy
 Section three: Additional extracorporeal therapies
 Chapter one: Haemofiltration
 Chapter two: Plasma exchange and haemoperfusion
 Section four: Peritoneal dialysis
 Chapter one: Anatomy and physiology
 Chapter two: Initiation and maintenance of therapy
 Chapter three: Treatment: modalities, modifications and measurement
 Chapter four: Complications of therapy
 Section five: Transplantation
 Chapter one: The history of transplantation. Chapter two: Recipient selection and preparationChapter three: Donor selection and preparation
 Chapter four: The perioperative period
 Chapter five: Complications of transplantation
 Section six: Paediatric renal failure
 Chapter one: Renal function in the child
 Chapter two: Extracorporeal management
 Chapter three: Paediatric peritoneal dialysis
 Chapter four: Paediatric renal transplantation
 Chapter five: Physical and psychological consequences of renal disease in children
 Section seven: Complementary therapies.