2012, Number 3
Hemodialysis: a non complication-free process
Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 131-137
PDF size: 218.98 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Hemodialysis is a substitutive therapeutic alternative procedure for patients with renal disease. Currently it can be noticed that hemodialysis, has had a slow evolution and it is an invasive procedure which is not exempt from complications.Objective: To identify the main complications that impair quality of life in patients who come to an Hemodialysis unit in San Luis Potosí, Mexico; during the months of October – November 2010.
Methodology: Descriptive and cross-sectional study which took place in an Hemodialysis Unit of San Luis Potosí.; it included patients who attend to regular sessions of hemodialysis according to their prescriptions, patients who did not meet this requirement were excluded and those who stopped coming to replacement therapy were eliminated. A questionnaire consisting of 26 items was designed, validated and implemented; its pilot test obtained a Cronbach alpha of 0.68. The data analysis was performed using SPSS version 17.0.
Results: 52 patients were surveyed, 57.7% female and 42.3% male. Diabetes mellitus and hypertension were the main etiological factors with 44.2%.; 69.2% have a catheter as a vascular access. The main complications were: cramps 71.2%, hypertension 67.3%, headache 55.8%, hypotension 55.8% vomiting 48.1%, dyspnea 34.6% and 43.3% referred infection as the cause of change of catheter.
Conclusions: Hemodialysis patients always had complications during the process. These complications were evidence of deterioration in their quality of life.
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