News: UTI nurses were trained in continuous renal replacement therapy (dialysis for acute patients) • San Juan de Dios Hospital - San Fernando

San Fernando Hospital have become a first level health center in treatment and care of complex patients hospitalized in the critical patient unit (UPC).One of the great advances of this unit is renal replacement therapy or acute dialysis, which allows a patient who requires emergency dialysis to be treated in the hospital and not transfer it to another establishment to acquire this benefit.At the rate of this, the UPC has trained 100% of the nursing estate, in the development of this technique for patients.According to Daniela Vega Marimán, supervisory nurse of the adult UTI, “having nurses trained not only a plus for unit, but also for care management, allowing to complex care and provide optimal benefit in complex patients whoThey require, "in the beginning, only the UCI had trained personnel in this technique, but the UTI at the rate of the pandemic, increased its complexity in patient care, which forced us to develop dialitic therapies with the support of the UCI nurses.This training allows us to respond immediately to a dialytic urgency of clinical response, reducing times significantly ”.

Specializing in complex therapy

“In the critical patient unit we have two OMNI machines, which makes it possible.Continuous renal replacement therapy has several work techniques such as hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration, hemofiltration, plasmapheresis and renal replacement therapy with citrate, which are complex in themselves;but that as the first instance the UTI will begin working with hemodialysis and hemofiltration with heparin;And it is expected that in the coming months, we will develop citrate therapy, ”said UTI Supervisor Nurse Adult.

At the rate of pandemic for Coronavirus, nurses were also trained in critical patient management, “therefore, the versatility of professionals has been an important plus in our unit.With this we can offer the community a benefit continuously 24 hours a day.This complexization of our work is undoubtedly an excellent news for our user, which allows both the first care and the treatment to be done in the Critical Patient Unit of the San Fernando Hospital and avoid transferring to another establishment with hemodynamic instability, ”he concluded, he concludedThe professional.