Abstract

CUENCA, Jorge et al. Clinical practice guide: utility of ultrasound in the creation and maintenance of arteriovenous access Vascular Diagnosis Chapter. Spanish Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery. Angiología [online]. 2020, vol.72, n.6, pp.298-307.  Epub Feb 01, 2021. ISSN 1695-2987.  https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/angiologia.00126.

Vascular access in patients on hemodialysis significantly affects the quality of life, morbidity, mortality, complications and the need for new procedures over time. In addition, they have important technical and economic implications. These are fragile patients, often with many reinterventions, who will require vascular access for long periods of time or for the rest of their lives, so we are facing a big health problem that we must treat in the best possible way.

In this framework, ultrasounds offer, more than in any other location, an invaluable help in all stages of vascular disease: from planning the arteriovenous access, creation, follow-up or as intraoperative tool. This document tries to provide an update and help to clinical practice.

Keywords : Guide; Ultrasound; Arterio-venous access.

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