Impact of the COVID pandemic on vascular access creation for haemodialysis in 16 Spanish haemodialysis centres.

María Dolores Arenas JimenezAngel MéndezKarina FurazAna BotellaDelfina YetmanRamiro CazarMara Lisbet CabanaMarc HandelMaría Luz SanchezMargarita DelgadoMaria Melissa VasquezIsabel MartinezMonica PereiraEmilio González-ParraMaria Soledad Pizarro-SánchezIgnacio Sanz GarayzabalLaura Rodriguez-OsorioJose M PortolésDavid HernánBlanca Mirandanull null

Published in: Clinical kidney journal (2022)

COVID has presented a public health system crisis that has influenced VA for HD, with an increase in CVCs relative to AVFs. A decrease in HD sessions that did not reach the HD dose objective was observed in the COVID period compared with a pre-COVID period.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
public health
sars cov
peritoneal dialysis
end stage renal disease