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What considerations do you take when managing a patient with end stage kidney disease on peritoneal dialysis who is planning on undergoing PEG tube placement?

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Nephrology · UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)

This is a somewhat difficult question to address, as there is more opinion and conventional “wisdom” than there is data. Let me begin with the “easy” part: notwithstanding reports of caregivers confusing the PD catheter for the PEG tube and instilling enteral feeding solutions intraperitoneally, pla...

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