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Agree with Faith that the prime rate should not be excessive - see manufacturer's recommendations.  Once the blood side of the dialyzer is primed, venous end up, forcing air up and out, vigorous tapping, banging or shaking can create micro-bubbles that ...

Our local community college is starting a CCHT course, and I was contacted by a telemetry tech in my hospital to see if she can "shadow" in dialysis in preparation for her instructing the CCHT course at the college. I was flabbergasted to think that the ...

My only thought about checking adequacy in acute settings is that the clinic routinely does this. Not many patients are going to be in-patient for the month interval where it's normally checked, so the occasion to do a check is infrequent. This leads ...