What is it about?
The paper summaryses what a nurse needs to know about artero-venous fistula in hemodialysis: inspection, evaluation, venipuncture tecquniques and how to recognize the most common complications of this type of vascular access
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Why is it important?
An adequate vascular access care may improve fistula survival as well as minimize patient's distress during dialysis
Perspectives
An integrated management (doctor-nurse) of AV fistula is advocated to improve patients' quality of life during hemodialysis
Milena Bosatta
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This page is a summary of: Prosthetic Artero-Venuous Fistula: The Nursing Focus, Giornale di Techniche Nefrologiche e Dialitiche, October 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.5301/gtnd.2016.16403.
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