Madurai: Kidney patients told to opt for home dialysis with remote watch

Kidney patients, who require dialysis, should opt for peritoneal dialysis (PD) with remote patient monitoring (RPM) as there is a risk of contracting Covid-19 from fellow dialysis patients in hospitals, said Dr Sampath Kumar, head, department of nephrology, Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre in Madurai. In a statement, Kumar said that PD is a form of standard dialysis therapy, which uses the peritoneum in a patients’ abdomen as the membrane through which fluid.
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