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Randee Breiterman-White1

  • 1Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Nephrology Nursing Journal : Journal of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association
|May 10, 2007
PubMed

Management of patients at both the lower and the upper ranges of the hemoglobin target range is crucial to ensuring optimal anemia-related outcomes in patients on dialysis. Nurses can be instrumental in helping to minimize the percentage of patients with hemoglobin levels above the target range through ongoing assessments of longitudinal trends, use of an anemia management protocol that integrates all aspects of care, and prompt adjustments in the Epoetin alfa dose when trend analysis reveals a risk of overshooting target levels.

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