Peritoneal Dialysis as an Option of Unplanned Initiation of Chronic Dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has become a well-established complementary alternative to haemodialysis (HD) as first-line renal replacement modality. At department of Botucatu Medical School, more than 60% of the chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 5 patients are started urgently on chronic dialysis due to late referral or unexpected deterioration of residual renal function. These patients, although suitable for PD, were previously started on HD using central venous catheter. Since July 2014 patients have been offered urgent start on chronic PD right after PD-catheter insertion by percutaneous surgery, using Seldinger technique. The main objective is to compare technique and patients survival on unplanned PD vs. unplanned HD in the first 180 days. Methodology: Quasi experimental study which will describe how acute PD will initiated using high volume PD until metabolic and fluid control right after (\<48 h) PD catheter placement standard prescription for a 12 h overnight automatic PD until hospital discharge and intermittent PD at dialysis unit family training.