Tag: KDOQI
Kate Steiner
From choosing her specialty to competing in dressage, interventional radiology (IR) lead at East and North Herts NHS Trust (Stevenage, UK) Kate Steiner speaks...
Aligning incentives to improve patient outcomes
Care of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is complex, involving many decisions that are not exclusively based upon...
KDOQI vascular access guidelines: Opportunity or concern for clinical research?
Earlier this year, in an interview with Renal Interventions, Scott Trerotola (Philadelphia, USA) remarked that “guidelines are a research workbook for the next generation”....
Fistula, graft or catheter—first and foremost, dialysis patients want an access...
“Catheters are not nearly as bad as we make them out to be.” This was one of the salient messages delivered by Theodore Saad...
KDOQI guidelines: Much-needed overhaul and missed opportunities
Scott Trerotola (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA), who is set to be awarded a Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Gold Medal in June 2022,...
Plain balloon first and drug-eluting balloon second? The role of DCBs...
Kate Steiner (Stevenage, UK) discusses existing clinical evidence on drug-coated balloons (DCBs) in the treatment of arteriovenous access stenosis—and outlines areas where further data...
Charmaine Lok
Equally at home on the ward seeing patients, at study sites conducting research, and travelling the world for voluntary medical missions, Charmaine Lok has...
PVI 2021: Global standardisation of guidelines and patient-first approach to kidney...
In the future, a global approach to help standardise clinical practice guidelines for kidney disease may be the ideal way forward. This was the...