The Hospital Research Foundation Group Impact Report - Flipbook - Page 44
KIDNEY DISEASE
Fighting kidney disease
Chronic kidney disease affects one in 10 Australians,
while around 15,000 Australians rely on dialysis to survive.
Your support is helping patients
better manage their kidney disease
and improve access to and recovery
from kidney transplants.
YOUR IMPACT IN 2023:
Establishing the best way to manage a
patient 24 hours post-kidney transplant
Improving needle management to help
dialysis patients who have a fear of needles
DID YOU KNOW?
A dialysis patient will have
two large needles inserted
in their arm three times a week –
equating to more than 300 needle
insertions a year!
You can imagine then, how hard
this is for someone with a fear of
needles? That’s why we’re proud to
fund a study into improving needle
management and support for these
patients. Thank you!
Finding new ways to improve the viability
of a deceased donor kidney for transplant
Rolling out a “Kidney Mums” toolkit to help
women with kidney disease have children
Improving care and wellbeing for young
people undergoing a kidney transplant
Funding a new database to improve service
delivery, care and outcomes for patients
Investigating ways to improve safety of
tacrolimus (preventing organ rejection)
in kidney transplant recipients
Supporting the Central and Northern
Adelaide Renal and Transplantation
Service (CNARTS)
Measuring the quality of kidney cancer
surgery.
Central & Northern
Local Health Networks
The best care after a kidney transplant
A kidney transplant can improve quality of life and longevity, but it is a major
operation that can place stress on the body and blood pressure. To improve
how patients recover, Dr Karthik Venkataraman is driving world-first research
on how best to manage a patient's blood pressure after a kidney transplant.
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