Can a renal nurse assess fluid status using ultrasound on the inferior vena cava? A cross-sectional interrater study.
Ulrich SteinwandelNicholas GibsonAmanda TowellJames J R RippeyJohan RosmanPublished in: Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis (2017)
A renal nurse can reliably perform ultrasound of the IVC in hemodialysis patients, obtaining high quality scans for volume assessment of hemodialysis patients. This novel approach could be more routinely applied by other renal nurses to obtain objective measures of patient volume status in the dialysis setting.