Dialysis is a method of treatment which in over 30 years of progress has developed different technologies and strategies now to be unified in a single dialytic culture.
In our experience we have decided to adopt an open policy as for the patient acceptance and the setting of modes of therapy, taking in account 5 fundamental criteria: i.e. dialytic adequacy, rehabilitation, safety, economy and working simplicity. Today short dialysis is the backbone schedule we have developed with an intensive participation of the patients to their treatment. Yet our results are not only the expression of a schedule but also a demonstration of how valuable may result some cautions in the management of the RDT patient.
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GiordanoC., De SantoN.G., CirilloD.: Short daily peritoneal dialysis: 3 years experience.Nephron22: 123, 1978.
