Advantages
Disadvantages
Requirement
Intermittent Haemodialysis
- Efficient and intensive technique
- Allows for down-time for interventions
- Can be performed overnight
- Staff required for a shorter time
- Lower costs
- May cause haemodynamic instability with rapid fluid removal
- Relative need for anticoagulation
- Potential for disequilibrium
- Need for expensive machinery
- Need for personnel
- Venous access
- Anticoagulation
- Skilled staff
- Expensive equipment
Continuous RRT
- Provides better haemodynamic stability
- Efficient solute removal and electrolyte balance with continuous removal
- Round-the-clock maintenance of volume status
- Nutrition and medication given while volume status maintained
- User-friendly machines
- Patient immobilisation
- Need for prolonged anticoagulation
- Nursing staff intensive
- Expensive machinery
- Risk of hypothermia
- Round the clock skilled nursing staff
- Venous access
- Anticoagulation
- Complex equipment
Peritoneal Dialysis
- Better haemodynamic stability than haemodialysis
- No need for anticoagulation
- Slow correction of volume and electrolyte disorders
- Many nurses unfamiliar with methods
- Risks of leaks and peritoneal infection
- Peritoneal catheter
- Sterile peritoneal solutions
- Trained staff