Hemodialysis Task
Only mark a task as performed if it was done during a patients stay on your ward. If a task was done prior to patient coming to your ward or after patient is transferred to another ward, it should be marked as no or none during the stay on your ward.
Dialysis
Patients who have underlying CRF are on chronic hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, if they go for a kidney transplant and develop a complication of rejection, hyper K+ or renal failure etc., post kidney transplant and subsequently require dialysis, this will be considered acute dialysis.
Not all pts with DX of ARF or CRF in comorbids have their dialysis during ward admission, particularly if they are a short stay (less than 4 days). Pt is sent to other wards for their dialysis, therefore it may be correct that there might not be a dialysis acute or chronic TASK is marked.
- possible entries: (none, acute, chronic)
- Acute – first time dialysis ever, during this hospital admission (page 32 in Dx code book). ACUTE dialysis is 1st time dialysis during this hosp admission.
- Chronic - dialysis which was being done on an outpatient basis prior to this hospitalization