Controversies in Dialysis Access (CiDA) 2023

Controversies in Dialysis Access (CiDA) is organized by Behind The Scenes and will be held from Oct 26 - 28, 2023 at Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

Description:
The Controversies in Dialysis Access (CiDA) meeting is the leading educational forum for surgeons, radiologists, nephrologists and medical staff who care for dialysis access patients.

The kidney failure patient has complex medical needs, and optimal solutions to provide life-saving renal replacement may not be obvious. Surgeons, Nephrologists, Interventional Radiologists, staff at dialysis units, and others are all equipped with different training, experience, and expertise. All of these providers offer certain elements of patient care. But care isn’t seamless, and there are many different ways to “see” the issues that these patients face.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess ways to improve training in order to make sound clinical decisions.
• Recognize the benefits of effective communication in a multidisciplinary team setting to advance the care of dialysis patients.
• Analyze the benefits and drawbacks of different dialysis options for patients who need renal replacement.
• Identify risks and benefits of peritoneal and hemodialysis.
• Compare traditional and nontraditional approaches for arteriovenous access creation and intervention.
• Determine how best to make clinical decisions for patients with thoracic central vein obstruction.
• Identify how best to manage patients with AV fistula aneurysms.
• Discuss factors that contribute to patient safety during dialysis-access surgery and catheter-based interventions.
• Decision making in how to best treat a failing AV access.