Restructuring nephrology services to combat COVID-19 pandemic: Report from a Middle Eastern country

Coronavirus disease 2019 has spread across the world and has been classified as a pandemic. It has overwhelmed the healthcare systems. Specifically, it has overstretched the intensive care units and renal replacement therapy services in many countries. In this paper, we discuss the reconfiguration o...

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Autores principales: Asim, Muhammad, Alkadi, Mohamad, Hamad, Abdullah, Othman, Muftah, Abuhelaiqa, Essa, Fituri, Omar, El-Madhoun, Ihab, Al-Malki, Hassan
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Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020
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Opinion Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7701933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33312898
http://dx.doi.org/10.5527/wjn.v9.i2.9
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author Asim, Muhammad
Alkadi, Mohamad
Hamad, Abdullah
Othman, Muftah
Abuhelaiqa, Essa
Fituri, Omar
El-Madhoun, Ihab
Al-Malki, Hassan
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Alkadi, Mohamad
Hamad, Abdullah
Othman, Muftah
Abuhelaiqa, Essa
Fituri, Omar
El-Madhoun, Ihab
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 has spread across the world and has been classified as a pandemic. It has overwhelmed the healthcare systems. Specifically, it has overstretched the intensive care units and renal replacement therapy services in many countries. In this paper, we discuss the reconfiguration of nephrology services in the State of Qatar during the current pandemic. We highlight the key strategies that have been implemented to ensure that renal replacement therapy capacity is not constrained in either the intensive care or ambulatory setting. Some innovative approaches for the safe delivery of ambulatory care to dialysis and kidney transplant patients are also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-77019332020-12-10 Restructuring nephrology services to combat COVID-19 pandemic: Report from a Middle Eastern country Asim, Muhammad Alkadi, Mohamad Hamad, Abdullah Othman, Muftah Abuhelaiqa, Essa Fituri, Omar El-Madhoun, Ihab Al-Malki, Hassan World J Nephrol Opinion Review Coronavirus disease 2019 has spread across the world and has been classified as a pandemic. It has overwhelmed the healthcare systems. Specifically, it has overstretched the intensive care units and renal replacement therapy services in many countries. In this paper, we discuss the reconfiguration of nephrology services in the State of Qatar during the current pandemic. We highlight the key strategies that have been implemented to ensure that renal replacement therapy capacity is not constrained in either the intensive care or ambulatory setting. Some innovative approaches for the safe delivery of ambulatory care to dialysis and kidney transplant patients are also discussed. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020-11-29 2020-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7701933/ /pubmed/33312898 http://dx.doi.org/10.5527/wjn.v9.i2.9 Text en ©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Alkadi, Mohamad
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Abuhelaiqa, Essa
Fituri, Omar
El-Madhoun, Ihab
Al-Malki, Hassan
Restructuring nephrology services to combat COVID-19 pandemic: Report from a Middle Eastern country
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title_full Restructuring nephrology services to combat COVID-19 pandemic: Report from a Middle Eastern country
title_fullStr Restructuring nephrology services to combat COVID-19 pandemic: Report from a Middle Eastern country
title_full_unstemmed Restructuring nephrology services to combat COVID-19 pandemic: Report from a Middle Eastern country
title_short Restructuring nephrology services to combat COVID-19 pandemic: Report from a Middle Eastern country
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7701933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33312898
http://dx.doi.org/10.5527/wjn.v9.i2.9
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