Latest Renal Association guidelines

The Renal Association has produced guidance on best practice in the management of patients with kidney disease since 1995. These guidelines have been accredited by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and accreditation is valid until January 2022. A selection of their guidelines have been published in BMC Nephrology and are available to view here.

Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline on peritoneal dialysis in adults and children

Graham WoodrowEmail author,
Stanley L. Fan,
Christopher Reid,
Jeannette Denning and
Andrew Neil Pyrah

BMC NephrologyBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201718:333

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0687-2

Received: 10 July 2017
Accepted: 9 August 2017
Published: 16 November 2017

Abstract

These guidelines cover all aspects of the care of patients who are treated with peritoneal dialysis. This includes equipment and resources, preparation for peritoneal dialysis, and adequacy of dialysis (both in terms of removing waste products and fluid), preventing and treating infections. There is also a section on diagnosis and treatment of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis, a rare but serious complication of peritoneal dialysis where fibrotic (scar) tissue forms around the intestine. The guidelines include recommendations for infants and children, for whom peritoneal dialysis is recommended over haemodialysis.

Immediately after the introduction there is a statement of all the recommendations. These recommendations are written in a language that we think should be understandable by many patients, relatives, carers and other interested people. Consequently we have not reworded or restated them in this lay summary. They are graded 1 or 2 depending on the strength of the recommendation by the authors, and A-D depending on the quality of the evidence that the recommendation is based on.