What is it about?
I discuss the findings of Dr. Julie Ishida and her colleagues regarding the potential adverse effects of opioid analgesic usage in the in-center hemodialysis population and compare those findings with my experience as a dialysis patient.
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Why is it important?
Pain in the in-center hemodialysis setting should be discussed rather than just treated because opioids may not be the best prescription.
Perspectives
While I can count the times I used painkillers as a dialysis patient on one hand, I know that many of my fellow kidney warriors use painkillers more often. I feel that highlighting the findings of Dr. Ishida and her colleagues is very important and that these findings warrant further discussion.
David White
Yale University
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This page is a summary of: Appropriate Use of Opioids in Patients with Kidney Diseases, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, April 2018, American Society of Nephrology,
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.03540318.
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