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Top stories from NKF Spring Clinical Meetings
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Among the top stories from the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings are a presentation that showed fluid resuscitation is critical when initially treating septic shock and a poster about the potential benefits of probiotics for patients with end-stage renal disease. Other stories include findings about the potential impact of plant-based diets on diabetes, a keynote address about the need for nephrology providers to shift their focus to the health outcomes of patients and data on the mortality rate of Medicare patients on dialysis.
Fluid resuscitation is critical in initial treatment of septic shock
Fluid resuscitation is critical in the initial treatment of septic shock, according to a presenter here at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings. Read More.
Study finds potential benefits of probiotics for patients with ESRD
There are potential benefits of probiotics regarding inflammation, uremic toxins and gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with end-stage renal disease, according to a poster presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings. Read More.
Plant-based diets could reverse diabetic kidney lesions
A poster presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings reportedly is the first to hypothesize that it may be possible to reverse diabetic kidney lesions by way of dietary changes. The author speculated that plant-based diets can improve, and possibly even reverse, diabetes in select patients. Read More.
Speaker: Chronic kidney disease is ‘perfect’ disease for high-value care
In a move to high-value health care, nephrology providers will have to shift their focus from measurements based on process measures to those focused on patient health outcomes, according to the presenter of the keynote address here at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings. Read More.
Study: Continual drop in mortality rate among patients on dialysis levels off
A review of data up through 2016 now shows that the steady drop in the mortality rate among Medicare patients on dialysis that started more than a decade ago has abruptly ended and has gone up slightly, according to a poster presented here at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings. Read More.