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 How to manage the Aggression family.
 
 Reap the benefits of thinking beyond IQ
 
 K/DOQI attempts to make sense of chronic kidney failure
 
 Nurse prescribing needed to meet future demands
 
 Know your Nephrology?
 
 Meals both Patients and their families can enjoy!
 
 UK and Ireland dialysis units database
 
 It's getting easier to fix up Holiday Dialysis
 
 Kidney anatomy animation
 
 Slide library
 
 Glossary of terms
 
 Getting to grips with your dissertation
 
 Clinicians mock-exam questions
 
 How to write a compelling CV
 
 Nurses mock-exam questions
 
 Interview techniques
 
 Helping your patients to eat exotic
 
 Herbs and their use - a database of information
 
 Tips, Tricks and shortcuts
  Clinical practice
   
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 How to help adolescents move from child to adult services
 
 Ageing patients pose a rewarding challenge
 
 Diabetics with CKD need combined care
 
 Peritoneal dialysis in the newborn
 
 Time to turn our attention to obesity
 
 Obesity is a matter of maths!
 
 Sessions teach importance of a healthy heart
 
 Understanding Icodextrin
 
 Advances in bicarbonate peritoneal dialysis solutions
 
 Renal drugs need regular review
 
 Lifelong dialysis challenges both patients and staff
 
 Nearly there with Renal NSF document
 
 Management guidelines in mild renal failure
 
 Managing the scourge of systemic vasculitis
 
 3rd Edition of The Renal Standards Document
 
 Ask patients if they use herbal medicines
 
 Cardiovascular disease in end-stage renal failure
 
 Make walking-sticks relics of the past
 
 Is Healthy Start Dialysis good for our patients?
  Conferences & journals
   
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 Conservative management is a viable alternative to dialysis
 
 'Enhancing Theory & Practice' RCN Conference March 02
 
 EDTNA/ERCA Nice September 2001 conference report
 
 Dialysis 2001 Report
 
 Enjoy learning about Best Practice - EDTNA Annual Seminar review
 
 Pre-dialysis meeting report
 
 Innovative practice
 
 View the 1st Pre-dialysis Forum Seminar newsletter (pdf)
 
 Download a zip file of the newsletter
 
 BRS Conference Review 2001
 
 BRS Conference Review 2000
 
 Conference centre
 
 Journal reviews
 
 The 32nd EDTNA/ERCA Birmingham Conference
  Patients and Carers
   
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 Worth a dip for kidney patients
 
 Renal patients may lose in welfare reforms
 
 So - you're having a biopsy?
 
 Dialysis Food all the Family can enjoy!
 
 Eating exotic in and out
 
 Questions a patient should ask their doctor
 
 Ten tips about Haemodialysis
 
 Ten tips about Peritoneal Dialysis
 
 Ten tips about Anaemia in Kidney Failure
 
 Ten tips about sexual relationships
 
 Ten tips about Skin Care for Renal Transplant Patients
 
 Where to get more help?
 
 Use herbal medicines with care
 
 NKF Anaemia in kidney failure leaflet
  Forefront and debate
   
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 Let’s stop late referrals for kidney care
 
 Should we look for lead in all with CRF?
 
 Vascular calcification is more than pretty pictures
 
 Remember patients drink when taking oral drugs
 
 Sodium profiling is not a universal panacea.
 
 Can we tackle raised homocysteine?
 
 Is integrated renal replacement therapy desirable?
 
 Should patients eat on dialysis?
 
 We've still to master phosphate binding
 
 Clinical governance must guide renal biopsy
 
 Is there a best time to begin dialysis?
 
 Your options when treating restless legs
 
 Dyslipidaemia and renal disease
 
 Setting standards in transplantation
 
 Low blood pressure a disease marker in dialysis
 
 Stop restricting fluid intake - A Reply
 
 Stop restricting fluid intake!
 
 How do we prepare this patient for transplant?
 
 Forefront and debate discussion area
 
 Solving the transplant shortage
 
 Advances in anaemia management
  Case histories
   
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 This adolescent patient had recurrent crops of spots on the legs (mainly extensor surfaces) and arms.
 
 This 68-year-old man has urine protein of 10.2 g/24 h, a serum albumin of 26 g/l and periorbital lesions.
 
 Recurrent episodes of macro-scopic haematuria
 
 Sudden severe pain in the right heel while walking
 
 Asymptomatic microscopic haematuria and proteinuria
 
 General malaise, weight loss, fever and cough
 
 This 3-year-old boy has 4+ protein in his urine on stick testing.
 
 A 59-year-old man with a 20-year history of gout is referred for evaluation of renal insufficiency.
 
 light microscopy examination of centrifuged urine.
 
 a 60-year-old man who presented with nephrotic syndrome.
 
 What is the cause of the acute renal failure?
 
 What diagnostic clues are suggested by the hands of this hypertensive 20-year-old student?
 
 Vascular access and its complications?
 
 Investigation of adolescent with a history of urinary tract infections, now presenting with hypertension.
 
 Centrifuged urine sediment from an asymptomatic 35-year-old man
 
 A 63-year-old man with peripheral vascular disease
 
 A 37-year-old man with a long history of end-stage renal failure
 
 Can you help with this current case?
 
 A 19-year-old man receiving home haemodialysis for over a decade developed a lesion on his thumb.
 
 Microscopic haematuria: where is the likely origin of the bleeding?
 
 Measurements in chronic renal failure
 
 39 year old man with elevated serum creatinine
 
 Nephrectomy specimen
 
 an 18-year-old mentally retarded girl presented with a grand mal seizure
 
 What is the likely cause of renal failure in the 20-year-old man with spina bifida
 
 The Post-mortem specimen shows kidneys of a man treated with haemodialysis for 12 years prior to his death
 
 Patients A and B have both had the same laboratory test.
 
 A 65-year-old man developed acute renal failure after coronary artery bypass surgery.

 

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