ALCER and GADDPE launched a new website dedicated to peritoneal dialysis home.
on the occasion of the day world of the kidney.
– the goal is to facilitate communication between patients and specialists and disseminating, between patients and their families, knowledge about home peritoneal dialysis and the advantages it brings to the patient renal
– peritoneal dialysis is a household form of renal replacement therapy which helps the patient continue with their work and personal life skills and provides you with greater freedom and quality of life.
– each year, nearly 6,000 new patients need to be one of the three types of substitution treatment renal.
Madrid, 2011-March on the occasion of world kidney day ALCER Kidney Foundation and the support group for the development of Peritoneal Dialysis on Spain (GADDPE) launched a new website dedicated to peritoneal dialysis: www.dialisisperitonealdomiciliaria.com .
each year, nearly 6,000 new patients come forward his kidney failure until the need for each of the three types of renal replacement therapy: transplantation, hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. For clinical reasons, less than 20% of patients who are on dialysis can access a kidney, so the remaining 80% has to be on dialysis to survive. In addition, even patients who are eligible for a transplant needed dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis) while they are on the waiting list.
home peritoneal dialysis is a method of treatment that is performed in the home, manually or automatically, during the night, while sleeping. In this way, the only patient attends hospital to review each one or two months.
However, this technique is underused in Spain and only 5% of patients on dialysis uses this type of treatment. One of the reasons for this underutilization is that patients do not receive the appropriate information. According to Juan Carlos Julian, Manager of the Foundation Renal ALCER Spain only 21% of patients claimed to have been informed about the home peritoneal dialysis percentage that descends as it increases the patient’s age, which greatly reduces their right to choose the technology that best suits your lifestyle ”.
precisely, promoting information and communication between specialists and patients is one of the objectives of the new web page, it is intended to spread between patients and their families, is the home peritoneal dialysis, their characteristics and the proposals of the GADDPE to improve the replacement therapy renal.
this site has become a forum for patients with real testimonials, publications and studies related to chronic renal failure and peritoneal dialysis, news of interest to patients and their families and space views.
advantages of peritoneal dialysis home.
peritoneal dialysis presents:
– social benefits, as it allows the patient maintain their work and personal life and provides you with greater independence, intimacy, autonomy and quality of life;
– benefits medical, because he is considered an excellent form of home dialysis, is very suitable for patients who are on waiting list to receive a transplant, is recommended for all ages, and its continuous nature, is the closest to the normal functioning of the kidneys;
– benefits for the national system of health, that its use would mean a savings of 500 million euros to the SNS in 15 years. According to an economic evaluation, the annual average cost per patient of patients in treatment is 46.659 euros in hemodialysis and 32.432 euros in home DP, hemodialysis is 44 per cent more expensive than DP.
GADDPE about.
the support group for the development of Peritoneal Dialysis (GADDPE) aims to raise the health administration and society in general on the problem of under-utilization of peritoneal dialysis on Spain. The group consists of members of the Group of dialysis Peritoneal the society Spanish of Nephrology (SEN), the Spanish society of nursing Nefrológica (SEDEN), Fundación Renal Alcer Spain (FRAE), the Kidney Foundation Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo (FRIAT) and professors from different universities of medicine and nursing.
