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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2001) 16: 701-703
© 2001 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Special Feature

Report on training sessions at the Prishtina University Hospital Department of Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, 22–29 July 2000, by the Joint Action Nephrology Eastern Europe of ISN and EDTA/ERA

Stefaan Claus1, Joseph De Roose2, Jenny Lemaire2, Silke Spatzker3, Nic Veys1 and Martin Zeier,4

1 University Hospital Ghent, Renal Division, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital, Belgium, 3 Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Humboldt-University, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany and 4 Department of Medicine/Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Introduction

In June 2000, two WHO-appointed consultants [1] had written an extended report on future needs that must be met to guarantee that dialysis patients in Kosova are treated according to general standards. Sponsored by the ISN Commission on Acute Renal Failure and the Joint Action Eastern Europe (ISN/ERA), our group used the outstanding report by Adams and Brown as a working basis to train colleagues in the Department of Internal Medicine Prishtina (Kosova) concerning practical aspects of organizing a renal and a dialysis unit. Our ISN-ERA-group met the staff-members and trainees of the Department of Nephrology and worked with them for an entire week.

General considerations

The Prishtina University Hospital serves around 2 000 000 people (i.e. the population of Kosova, with approximately 1 000 000 living in or around Prishtina). The Departments of Nephrology and Haematology share one hospital floor for in-patients (approximately 40 beds for renal patients, all . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Vascular access and central venous catheter

Haemodialysis

Clinical nephrology

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