Providing acute dialysis in intensive care settings requires a specialized team of nurses, educators, physicians, and inter-professional team members to ensure it is safely and effectively prescribed and delivered.
Currently, there is opportunity to standardize renal replacement therapy (RRT) practices across all Alberta intensive care units (ICUs), including decisions on when to initiate dialysis, and how to best provide and monitor it. These decisions tend to vary across clinicians and Alberta’s 20 ICUs, and standardizing practice is expected to benefit patient care.
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Dialyzing Wisely aims to educate healthcare providers on how to apply the most recent scientific evidence while caring for critically ill patients and providing acute dialysis. This work will potentially reduce the number of patients needing long-term chronic dialysis, which very much improves the quality of patient and family-member lives, while reducing healthcare costs across Alberta.
The objectives of the program are:
