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Central Vein Hardware: Cannot Live With It, Cannot Live Without It
Author(s) -
Vachharajani Tushar J.,
Moossavi Shahriar,
Kaufman Tina,
Rocco Michael
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
seminars in dialysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-139X
pISSN - 0894-0959
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-139x.2008.00475.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dilemma , nephrology , dialysis , hemodialysis , intensive care medicine , modality (human–computer interaction) , population , vein , surgery , artificial intelligence , philosophy , environmental health , epistemology , computer science
Central vein catheters for dialysis have become an integral and unavoidable access modality for providing hemodialysis therapy despite all their major drawbacks. We report a clinical decision dilemma that every nephrologist will encounter while considering an ideal dialysis access for the steadily aging dialysis population.