Description

Introduction:

The Department of Nephrology, established in January 2016, plays a crucial role in any tertiary care hospital due to the increasing number of kidney disease patients and their specialized treatment needs. Since its inception, the department has been dedicated to providing top-quality medical care for various kidney disorders, including acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, glomerular diseases, urinary tract infections, fluid and electrolyte imbalances, acid-base disorders, polycystic kidney disease, dialysis complications, and kidney transplant dysfunction. We accomplish this task by providing different services as follow:

1. Outdoor patient Department: We provide OPD services twice a week to manage patients on outdoor basis.
2. Emergency: We provide daily emergency services for critical patients of kidney diseases. They are admitted in hospital if required, preferably in high dependency unit.
3. Emergency Dialysis services: Critical patients are provided emergency dialysis servicesin dialysis unit and intensive care when indicated.
4. Indoor Patient services: Daily round for indoor patients is carried out by consultant. Plan of management is discussed and executed. Complicated patients are managed by interdepartmental discussion and consensus.
5. Nephrology consultancy for other departments: Kidney disorders may be present in patients of almost every specialty particularly in hospitalized patients having severe infection, volume depletion or taking multiple medications. For that matter, their treating physicians require nephrology opinion. We provide nephrological consultation to patients of all specialties where required along with dialysis when indicated.
6. Outdoor dialysis services: Stable end stage kidney patients are offered regular dialysis on outdoor basis in our dialysis unit.

In addition to patient care, nephrology department is playing its role in the training and education of undergraduate and postgraduate students. We believe that by training the upcoming medical personnel, we can contribute in providing effective nephrology services beyond the confinement of a single institution. Our academic services are as follow.

1. Lectures on nephrology and fluid Electrolyte, acid base disorders for undergraduates and postgraduates
2. Clinical classes for undergraduates
3. Lectures and clinical training for students of dialysis technician diploma students

Special Services:

1. Hemodialysis: Our dialysis unit is offering 24 hrs dialysis services. There are 18 dialysis machines in the unit and 1 separate dialysis machine for intensive care unit (ICU). More than one thousand dialysis sessions are being performed per month. Poor patients are offered significant discount in charges to help them afford treatment. There is a good quality water treatment plant in dialysis unit to provide high quality pure water for dialysis process.One of the key features of our ICU is provision of dialysis facility for critical patients, especially those who are on ventilator and cannot be taken to dialysis unit for hemodialysis. We have a special separate portable water treatment plant for that matter along with a dedicated dialysis machine in ICU.
2. Dialysis Catheter procedure:Patients who require dialysis on emergency basis and they don’t have a function AV fistula or graft need a dialysis catheter inserted for dialysis. we have performed hundreds of procedure in last few years with minimal rate of complications.
3. Kidney Biopsy: Kidney biopsy is very important procedure for diagnosing unexplained kidney disease. Our department performs ultrasound guided real time kidney biopsy with very good success rate and minimal complications. If required, case is discussed with histopathologists for clinic pathological correlation.