Transitioning from central venous catheter to arteriovenous fistula : the hemodialysis patient experience
An estimated 200,000 British Columbians are afflicted with some degree of chronic renal disease in which the kidneys can no longer remove toxins from the body and they need a machine to perform this function. Hemodialysis is the most common way to do this and involves the creation of an access direc...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44034 |