Abstract

Increasing the prevalence of renal failure cases needing renal replacement therapy (RRT) among refereeing to the emergency department highlights the preparation re-quirement for services giving to these patients. The lim-ited number of hemodialysis machines, inaccessibility of dialysis machines in all hospitals, large number of pa-tients, and shortage of expert personnel in this field are some of current problems of health centers to present services for these patients. Since hemodialysis units are usually reserved for patients with chronic renal failure as overnight and weekly base, this problem would be exac-erbate when the subjects need emergent dialysis. On the other hand, in acute critical patients who have hemody-namic instability or heart failure, hemodialysis is not tolerable then not treatment of choice. Therefore, perito-neal dialysis can be considered as an alternative choice for emergent dialysis cases.

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