Selected as a Doody's Essential Title for 2025!

Packed with evidence-based, practical information on all aspects of dialysis training and therapy,Handbook of Dialysis, 6th Edition, covers everything from preparation and procedures to surgery, problems, and side effects. Edited by Drs. John T. Daugirdas, Peter G. Blake, and Todd S. Ing, and authored by international nephrology experts, this easy-to-use handbook offers concise, up-to-date guidance for clinicians and dialysis providers. Each chapter addresses a different area of patient management, including diagnostic workups, patient safety, and basic and advanced patient monitoring issues in acute dialysis and hemodialysis cases.

• Features aquick-reference, outline format; numerous tables, diagrams, and charts; and anew four-color designfor visual appeal and faster navigation
• Offerscomplete, concise coverageof peritoneal dialysis, acute dialysis, hemodiafiltration, home and intensive dialysis, blood-based therapies, the physiology of peritoneal dialysis, diabetes, hypertension, optimal management of anemia, infections, nutrition, mineral bone disorder, and much more
• Containsnew coverageof incremental dialysis and technological methods of volume control and anew chapteron patient reported outcomes and experience measures in dialysis
• Includesnew dataon high convective volume therapy,new antibioticsto prevent various catheter infections, expanded coverage of hemoperfusion and CRRT, and updated references and readings throughout
• Providesmore emphasison high molecular weight uremic toxin removal and removal of protein-bound uremic toxins

Selected as a Doody's Essential Title for 2025!

Packed with evidence-based, practical information on all aspects of dialysis training and therapy,Handbook of Dialysis, 6th Edition, covers everything from preparation and procedures to surgery, problems, and side effects. Edited by Drs. John T. Daugirdas, Peter G. Blake, and Todd S. Ing, and authored by international nephrology experts, this easy-to-use handbook offers concise, up-to-date guidance for clinicians and dialysis providers. Each chapter addresses a different area of patient management, including diagnostic workups, patient safety, and basic and advanced patient monitoring issues in acute dialysis and hemodialysis cases.