BACK TO THE BASICS: INCREASING
THE USE OF AVF IN HD PATIENTS
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Total Responses: 35 |
Program Attended:
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1) Access Practice |
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Has your practice
changed reqarding AVFs since the Back to the Basics meeting? |
32 |
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If so, do you
attribute any of your practice changes to what you learned at the meeting? |
30 |
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Please specify your
practice changes below. Check all
that apply |
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15 |
Started doing
conversions of AV grafts to AVFs |
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Increased number of
conversions of Av grafts to AVFs |
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Started doing transpositions of upper arm veins for AVF construction |
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More transpositions
of upper arm veins for AVF construction |
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More upper arm
fistulas |
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13 |
Earlier planning
with pre-ESRD patients for AVF placement |
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21 |
More AVFs as
initial access in new patients |
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Use of vein mapping
per physical exam With use of compression requiring a
tourniquet |
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Use of vein mapping
per Doppler Duplex scanning With use of compression requiring a
tourniquet |
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10 |
More active/formal
Access Planning For current AVG patients For current catheter patients For current AVF patients, planning
their next AVF |
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6 |
Use of buttonhole
technique with AVF patients to preserve AVF |
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Other: please
specify: «Other» |
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2) Have you increased the proportion
of patients utilizing AVF as primary access? |
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If yes, how is this
measured or tracked? |
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If tracked, what is
the change in AVF proportion in the past 6 months? |
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3) Surgical-nephrology affiliation: |
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(Nephrologost only)
I have changed which surgeons I refer my access patients to |
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My relationships
with the surgeon/nephrologist I work with has changed. Please describe this change: «Describe» |
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4) Please note obstacles to changes
that you have encountered: |
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5) Have you had any follow-up meeting with your
staff/administration/surgeons/partners /etc. since the Back to the Basics
meeting regarding what was discussed at the meeting? |
28 |
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If so, please
describe who you have met with any why:
«If_so_describe» |
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Would you be
interested in more information in the area of access care and planning? If
so, what information would be helpful to you |
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