Monitoring Your Fistula
These resources will help you learn to monitor your own fistula:
Fifty seven page book, Access and Initiation, offers tips on what you can watch out and check for during a dialysis treatment on pages 6-7. From the AAKP.
Two page fact sheet talks about what you can do during dialysis to protect your access, with sample questions you can ask your care team. From Life Options (MEI).
Twelve page newsletter tells you how to prepare your access site at dialysis, and how to track your venous blood pressure at each treatment to help prevent clotting. A sample pressure chart is included. From ESRD Network 12.
Twelve page newsletter covers why you might want to track your venous pressure at each treatment to help prevent clotting. A sample chart is included. From ESRD Network12.
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